Hope so. If Rishi does want to scrape the least bad loss (I think a win is now out of the question), he needs to get rid of Raab and Braverman like he (under duress) got rid of Zahawi and Williamson. (View Post)

And as noted above, completely unlike Thatcher. Who I remain a great fan of, even as I understand that many of her reforms didn’t succeed on her own terms. (View Post)

Sunak of course had a golden opportunity to throw Braverman to the wolves in the first week or so of his premiership. He flunked it, and possibly, with that, flunked his chances in 24. (View Post)

This is an excellent piece on the moral ambition behind Thatcherism and how it has utterly failed, creating a class of self-entitled boomers who, on average, take far more than they ever put into the… (View Post)

I am in New York. The pubs are mostly crap. NZ did not get pubs right because of low density development. Pubs need a critical mass of local population who can stumble home. (View Post)