For areas where the outcome is that new councils are being created, realistically the shadow elections aren’t going to take place until 2027 and a further deferral is very likely. (View Post)

He's bright and his heart, if buried deep beneath Labour authoritarianism, tribalism, and careerist self-interest, is probably in the right place - but you overstate things just a tad. Anyhow, I… (View Post)

Realistically, Streeting isn’t under any threat in his (and my former) home patch. Gaza won’t be such an issue come the next election, and his area is sufficiently mixed that without such a salient i… (View Post)

He’s clearly read something about McKinley (hence one of his early orders was to restore the name of his mountain) and wants a similar legacy. I was reading last night about the US-backed invasions o… (View Post)

The Canadian government has given its media a blow by blow account of the efforts it made to stave off the Trump tariffs, which is a useful background read: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/behind-th… (View Post)