I don’t know about “naive” but I agree that they seem ill-judged. My view is that this will pick up no red wall voters and slightly deter blue wall prospects. (View Post)

A lot of liberal commentators are annoyed. Personally I don’t even think they are effective. They are easily mistaken as ads for Rishi himself. (View Post)

Sadly I am too proletarian to have anything like a first-hand opinion. As a place to visit, though, Cambridge beats Oxford. The latter is a kind of tourist-infested tat-town. (View Post)

There was always a heavy theatrical air with Blair. He played sincere so well, he even convinced himself. (View Post)

I started a new job a month or so ago so I haven’t had much time for PB or reading, but I am v much enjoying the first Rick Perlstein book in his growing chronology of US Conservatism. One of things … (View Post)