With Raab’s departure, I was thinking about the turnover in top jobs. I was reminded again that from 2010 to 2019, Britain was ruled by a small and largely stable coterie: Cameron, Osborne, Hague, Ma… (View Post)

I don’t get the number of people sucked in by Raab’s counter narrative. Everyone has known for a long time that he is a bullying, incompetent shit. Complaints about him go back to the late noughties.… (View Post)

Sad Barry Humphries has died. Extraordinarily funny man. (View Post)

Chloe Smith is a blast from the past. (View Post)

May was a quietly effective Minister in the most politically toxic of offices: Home Secretary. She had a few mild policy reforms, but her greatest achievement was simply to stifle controversy. Hunt a… (View Post)