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" it could work" So could a Garden Bridge, a Thames Estuary intercontinental airport or a bridge from Scotland to Ireland. So could Brexit, or a high speed railway from London to Scotland o… (View Post)

The problem with IDS isn't that he's synonymous with Universal Credit - which, in principle, is a thoroughly sensible idea. It's that somehow an otherwise sane initiative has become inseparable from … (View Post)

Ashworthgate may be yesterday's news in the meeja - but it produced a startling effect on the doorsteps of what was once just about Britain's safest Tory seat (Witney) yesterday I was canvassing prac… (View Post)

"Very few posters on here really live in the nitty gritty northern towns, and nor do I these days. I do have a lot of friends who do. I still maintain that relying on them to go out and vote tor… (View Post)

I think this anti-public school argument is nonsense. Johnson's not at all unemployable: he'd have kept his jobs in journalism if his spectacularly dysfunctional father hadn't deprived him of any kin… (View Post)