The absolute static nature of the polls is something to behold. People have made their mind up. Sunak and Levido must be tearing their hair out that nothing changes this. We live in supposedly volati… (View Post)

The Conservatives still haven't selected a candidate for Henley. (Yes, it's desperately unlikely, but it's an interesting "what if...") (View Post)

Post towns are an anachronism. Even Royal Mail barely uses them any more. Essentially the important bits of your address are the top line and the postcode. Everything else is just error correction in… (View Post)

For anyone else, this would be a humbling experience: the realisation that you’ve risen to the top of your field and you’re simply no good at it. But Sunak doesn’t strike me as the sort of person who… (View Post)

You make your own luck. Boris’s great hero, Winston Churchill, was dealt a much tougher hand and history relates what he did with it. The great tragicomedy of Boris is that he wanted desperately to b… (View Post)