Italian provinces have councils below, as does London. The issue is whether unitary can work over a large, disparate area, especially when the power is going to be put in one person’s hands, with an … (View Post)

I believe the favoured solution here is a ‘Solent’ mayoralty covering Portsmouth, Southampton and the island. Presumably with a few adjacent bits of the mainland thrown in. Whether this is sorting ou… (View Post)

Johnson's interest in anything ended the minute they'd stopped filming him announcing it. (View Post)

That’s the idea of Santa; softening up the kids on the entry level so that they’re later ready to redeploy their credulity onto the hard stuff. (View Post)

Going round a hospital doing his "I'm not afraid" act, next to medical staff wearing all their protective gear, was idiotic, childish faux-machismo. As well as sending out precisely th… (View Post)