There are times when one misses the 'off topic' button.... (View Post)

Labour’s mistake, I suspect, will come to be seen as having raised relatively small, if still annoying, amounts of extra taxation and directing it almost entirely toward extra spending on benefits, r… (View Post)

The most common betting mistake is to back what you think *should* happen and not consider what the people who will actually take the decision might be thinking. (View Post)

As Gove said this morning, it seems unlikely that Rayner would sign up to be Streeting's "political girlfriend", and his implied suggestion to her that this is the route back to rehabi… (View Post)

That’s the irony of politics on both left and right. Party members and activists are almost always wrong, whether it comes to policy or personality, yet we would clearly live in a worse world if our … (View Post)