Today’s Sunday Rawnsley, brought to you from a warm and majestic Stockholm: The threat to Labour from parties to its left is almost certain to be more potent at the next election. There will be leftw… (View Post)

It’s my first time - and one of the last European capitals for me still to visit (outside the former USSR I think I only have Sofia and the former Yugoslav ones left, except I have been to Belgrade a… (View Post)

He’s saying he won’t put the people who will actually be running the country up for election, or tell us who they are in advance, but pick them himself afterwards. And, absent any political base of t… (View Post)

Trump has essentially used patronage to override them. Our HoL is largely immune, having jobs for life, but on their own they can’t do that much. We should be wary in thinking that some sort of magic… (View Post)

That last is certainly true. Leon lambasts others for almost every fault that he displays so regularly and reliably himself, almost as if his posts were some sort of weird ranting to the mirror. (View Post)