I have just been asked, in all sincerity, and in relation to a conversation which arose organically, by a younger colleague, presumably in the expectation that, as a man of the world of a certain age… (View Post)

Quite. I must admit I'm disappointed with the Tories under Kemi. They don't appear to have a strategy. They don't appear to be thinking about what they will offer to the electorate at … (View Post)

Moving in polite urban northern middle class circles as I do, most of the time, and consuming broadcast media, I have never really heard much criticism of Labour since the days of John Smith*. It was… (View Post)

FPTP benefits the winning party, rather than specifically Labour. (View Post)

This exercise is really hard to do, and all sorts of caveats apply. There was an excellent study done after the 1992 GE ('replaying the 1992 election', or something like that) which for me … (View Post)