Because the public expect their leaders to be charismatic in public and journalists like them to be charming in person. And a truly manipulative sociopath, who isn't worried about truthfulness, chang… (View Post)

Yes, the country is in a similar mess to how it was in the 1970s, and for the same reason - some external shocks combined with an out of control state that thinks it knows how to spend other people's… (View Post)

I'm always baffled as to why people thought Starmer would be either honest or competent. On honesty - he is a lawyer, a fundamentally dishonest profession where, like estate agents or prostitutes, yo… (View Post)

The Russians were only there because Ed Miliband was a weak, callous, backsliding, incompetent, treacherous turd. He should never have been let anywhere near government again after his betrayal of th… (View Post)

It's the Middle East. The choice is always between the pretty dire and the utterly dismal. The trick is to tell which is which. (View Post)