I heard Ed Davey on News Agents earlier this week. Total drivel. It’s sad, but the Lib Dems seem to have mutated from a gang of liberal policy wonks to somethin akin to a Waitrose users group. Presum… (View Post)

I think Kamala will win handsomely, just because Trump is running such a bad campaign. But Kamala obviously doesn’t have a clue about economic issues. Nor on foreign policy. She’s sounder of course t… (View Post)

Keir is a puritanical misery-guts. It’s the failure to project a positive vision of the future that makes the WFA cut seem arbitrary and mean, even though the essential case that pensioners have been… (View Post)

I actually moved. For a bunch of reasons, but the gloomy prospects of UK PLC was definitely one of them. It’ll be 3 years this December. (View Post)

I cannot really comment, except that it’s hard to “hide” rising violent crime from official statistics. What I suspect has happened is that shoplifting and low-level crimes - vandalism, flytipping - … (View Post)