Since Rubio has been sidelined from Ukraine, the Middle East, China and any other foreign policy matters, the Secretary of State has taken a keen personal interest in office stationery. (View Post)

Disability benefits surged due to austerity cuts, leading think-tank says ... In a "back-of-the-envelope calculation", the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) suggested disability benefit sp… (View Post)

Leaving aside party politics, there does seem to be an increasing problem that very few, if any, of our leaders have any sort of hinterland, and increasingly they've only been in politics for fi… (View Post)

No, the Truss problem was she had removed the Treasury's chief and sidestepped the OBR, leading to market suspicion there must be something bad somewhere that Truss was deliberately hiding from … (View Post)

So the system has no internal checks against reporting a whole class missing (say on a school trip to rob a museum) and no cc to someone, like the deputy head of attendance, who might have spotted an… (View Post)