We have had a lot of rain overnight, the country roads were flooded this morning. Patchy cloud now and quite a surprisingly biting wind for the time of year. Fresh and very pleasant for the early wal… (View Post)

He's ludicrous. I am bewildered that the US takes him even vaguely seriously. (View Post)

Burnham will discover, if successful, as all our PMs since 2008 have, that the options actually available are a lot less exciting than they would wish them to be. To create options you need to make s… (View Post)

Yes, a good analogy. Attractive to people outside the party but at the cost of popularity with those actually within it. (View Post)

Starmer wouldn't know if he was to the left or right of Wilson, or indeed anyone else. To make that call he'd need to have some idea where he was actually going. (View Post)