Rawnsley, like Andrew Marr, is good when writing about the Left, but when writing about the Right, it's best take the opposite of what he says, because he simply doesn't understand them or their poli… (View Post)

I think that's right. I also think that Cameron never really defined it in any great detail and after ten years of Tony Blair people were cynical about meaningless buzz words that didn't have much su… (View Post)

Like so many sweeping quotes about the doom of democracy that's clearly bollocks as we've had a welfare state for at least eighty years, arguably more than a century, and have been a democracy all th… (View Post)

I don't want to discourage the Conservatives from promising relief to this country's overburdened taxpayers, but I'm not sure any pledge from an Opposition third in the polls, facing a huge governmen… (View Post)

The benchmark for these things is surely not Liz Truss, but the 18th century "Long Administration" of the Earl of Bath, which lasted 48 hours, and, as one commentator of the time noted, is … (View Post)