Part of being leader is picking your team. Of course, Major may have had better material to work with. On the other hand, much of his premiership was compromised by a wafer-thin majority, which we ca… (View Post)

It’s truly terrifying. As was their decision last year to essentially exempt the President from criminal prosecution. (View Post)

I said as much as the time. In hindsight, it was an early warning that Starmer didn’t believe in anything, least of all “growth”. (View Post)

I have the regular clergy down as middle middle, and senior (church of England) clerics down as upper middle. (View Post)

Cameron I don’t think was indolent. However he wasn’t a deep thinker, and he was undone by a certain born-to-rule arrogance. And I think Clegg’s flaw was naiveté rather than indolence. Johnson was tr… (View Post)