Why? Starmer follows a recent run of 2- or 3-year Prime Ministers. Gordon Brown: 3 years David Cameron: 6 but only 1 year outside the coalition Theresa May: 3 years Boris Johnson: 3 years Liz Truss: … (View Post)

I think it is slightly worse than that. As a naive technocrat, Starmer assumed there was a correct answer to each question, and that the Civil Service already had a roadmap to the sunlit uplands but … (View Post)

He was the future once. (View Post)

It would be nice to see if a Burnham-led Labour Party can retain the Manchester Mayoralty. Lose that and MPs will be wondering what it was all about. (View Post)

There's nothing on telly today so here's the BBC's dramatisation of Mrs Thatcher's fall from power:- Drama charting Margaret Thatcher's astonishing fall from power, one of th… (View Post)