Rawnsley is good when it comes to internal Labour Party machinations and gossip. He obviously has good contacts there. But when it comes to writing about other parties, especially the Conservatives, … (View Post)

[Much] shorter Rawnsley: voters don't like falling living standards and blame the government but we don't yet know what will happen at the next election. Not sure that's much of an insight and did he… (View Post)

Of the many, many problems inflicted by an old fool's dithering, that's obviously not one. It's been blindingly obvious since the 40s that nuclear weapons have a powerful deterrent effect, and ghastl… (View Post)

Even if they didn't, it's still entirely wrong to harass people for perceived non-crimes just because you object to their views or some other entirely subjective ground. (View Post)

You'd almost think that kicking the private sector in the balls over and over again and transferring resources to the inefficient and unproductive private sector wasn't the ideal recipe for economic … (View Post)