I can understand a poor showing at one PMQs. It's a bearpit. But, far more worringly, for a man whose only real selling point is supposed technocratic competence to have appointed an obvious risk lik… (View Post)

I think politicians' pay in the UK is about right, maybe a little on the low side - what is scandalous is some of the non-political public sector pay. University vice chancellors are on an AVERAGE of… (View Post)

The interesting question is why people thought Mandelson's ambassadorship would end any other way. He has shown staggeringly poor judgement on so many previous occasions and is probably the most scan… (View Post)

There SHOULD be new Presidential elections, as Macron is clearly many years past his sell-by date and utterly discredited. Just as Starmer only got in because people wanted to punish the Conservative… (View Post)

I think another of their achievements you don't mention for some reason, that they implemented the biggest popular vote for anything in British history, could well be more important anything else. Pe… (View Post)