Yes, the government has to act on the basis of compromise between positions, rather than a winner-takes-all approach that sees a programme endorsed by 35% of the popular vote run rampant. This is a f… (View Post)

Is there a chance of a mutation from Omicron that keeps its extreme transmissibility, but also becomes a whole bunch more fatal? (Humour me, I know nothing about these things.) (View Post)

Slightly seriously, the Carrie problem for Johnson is that people have heard of her. No one outside the pages of Private Eye had really heard of Marina Wheeler. Boris breaks up with her? Big deal. Bo… (View Post)

I skip the Toynbee screeds too, but quite the worst op-ed articles in the Guardian are those written by 23-year olds called something like Charlotte Rhian Williams who grew up in Llanelli and now liv… (View Post)

Sorry to hear that, and hope it all works out for you. I think Mrs Capitano is probably about to reach the same point, not helped by an unsympathetic academy trust. Trying to keep a school running wi… (View Post)