If you accept a ministerial post on account of an inter-party agreement, I think you have passed the bar for coalition regardless of who may sit at cabinet. Lots of SNP MSPs aren't at cabinet. (View Post)

Most U.S. presidential polling is giving 8-14% to Kennedy. To me, this creates huge uncertainty about the eventual outcome. (View Post)

This bit of business in Brussels has spectacularly backfired. A conference nobody would have remembered in a week's time, turned into undeserved and extralegal martyrdom. (View Post)

Posh demi-billionaire Sunak gets time of day from people who like that sort of thing, but has achieved worse polling results for his party than Johnson and even Truss. (View Post)

Mike I am very grateful for the last 15 years of my readership. It is the best such website still going. Best wishes. (View Post)