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)

From an American TwiX account. Who does she think pays for her own Head of State's motorcade? (View Post)

The Edinburgh attacks were on the news. I thought about linking to it here but there was a lot on already, what with trains and football and crocodiles. Same with the airport bomb scare, now you ment… (View Post)

The last Prime Minister to bang on about how a party election provided a mandate was Liz Truss. Labour has a mandate; Burnham personally should not claim one on the basis of 25,000 Mancs. (View Post)