Truss ain’t coming back. Even the shit-witted rump of Tories left after the next election aren’t that stupid. (View Post)

I have to confess some minor admiration for Truss’s sheer chutzpah. And, unlike the many other numpties at the top of the Tory Party she is not grotesquely over-privileged, nor personally corrupt. Ok… (View Post)

The first order of my dictatorship will be to have that bombed (and blamed on Brexiters). (View Post)

I’m only half way through, but I don’t quite get that impression. Goldwater seems a bit of an Enoch Powell; ideologically irascible but personally otherworldly to the point of naïveté. (View Post)

Truss is a keen fan of the works of Rick Perlstein, who has written a multi-volume history of the American Right, starting with Barry Goldwater. I’m half way through the first one, it’s very good. (View Post)