It seems to have fooled Carlotta. Or perhaps she herself wishes to insult our intelligence. The jury is out. (View Post)

Keir is following Blair’s playbook, but is rather wary of the man himself for the reasons you’d expect. Blair on the other hand hasn’t much rated Keir’s retail politics abilities and possibly felt a … (View Post)

Absolutely, and that moment was probably something like 2005 or earlier. 2007/8 was merely the crisis. I am not precisely Blair/Brown’s number one fan. But I think Brown gets unfair criticism around … (View Post)

I’m not sure, if we’re honest, that there is any reasonable predecessor for Truss. “Barberism”, surely a phrase already invented, comes closest. (View Post)

Finished that Liz Truss podcast. Fascinating to be reminded that the first “resigner” - and the person whose resignation made Truss realise it was all over - was that notorious Sunakite wet…Suella Br… (View Post)