There are so many examples of democracy failing us, that it isn’t surprising that people are increasingly wondering whether a benign dictatorship might work for us so much better. The two problems be… (View Post)

Where they will probably struggle (to a greater extent than other parties, who also struggle) is attracting sufficient fit younger people to do all that leg work. (View Post)

Maybe so, but we also had a huge helping hand from the efforts the Tories have gone to, with Brexit, Johnson and the rest, to alienate their historic Home Counties power base. Those seats mostly drop… (View Post)

A respected commentator suggested that Musk spending what to him is small change to buy Twitter, actually just delivered Trump his win. (View Post)

Broadly I agree - but the self-inflicted flaw in Labour’s approach arises if most of the increase on employers’ NI ends up being passed through to consumers through higher prices - as the announcemen… (View Post)