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)

I have given up on Starmer. But the hysteria of the various complaints against him bring me back to the absurd days of beergate when Big G almost frotted himself to death over whether Starmer had cho… (View Post)

Ah yes. For some reason, forgot Heath and Callaghan…and Thatcher! (View Post)

Perhaps Saunders adopted a more ascetic approach, following said news reports. I don’t really see a smoking gun here. British public life tends to the punitively spartan if you ask me. (View Post)

HMRC is not the authority on how public or private sector companies manage executive travel. (View Post)