If there hadn’t been a weird omertà in the British press about the appropriateness of appointing one’s lover to Chancellor, we might have been spared the unfortunate incidents of the last six weeks. … (View Post)

“Private messages with her close friend Kwasi Kwarteng.” I’m old enough to remember when Big G was suggesting I was foul of libel law, having recently concluded his campaign to persecute Keir Starmer… (View Post)

Part of the Johnson-led Great Debauch of the Institutions. (View Post)

Pathetic security lapse. Britain seems to be a banana republic. Not sure if I blame Liz Truss, though. Where the hell are GCHQ? (View Post)

This is essentially true, but plays into the idea that the EU was some kind of upper middle class wealth machine. But the problems are to do with (lack of) domestic redistribution and investment poli… (View Post)