My Labour contacts have been promoting Al Carns for a few months now. On one hand, the idea of a backbencher taking on the leadership is a farce, on the other hand there is Lucy Powell and an endless… (View Post)

For me the pivot point was the moment the government failed to carry Parliament on benefit reform. The market, and indeed all sentient observers, concluded that Starmer and Reeves weren’t up to it. T… (View Post)

Rishi’s big idea was national service and chess boards (but no pieces) for every town council. He was a hyper-numerate idiot, and a philistine to boot. (View Post)

I knew you’d say that. But Labour came in with the second-largest majority since the war. It’s not good enough to complain that “we know what to do, but we don’t know how to win an election afterward… (View Post)

The top 10% of UK income earners are incredibly steeply taxed. Wealth is barely taxed. So we simply penalise strivers and entrepreneurs to pay for elderly home-owners to take cruises. (View Post)