In terms of national self interest, I think he is right. The optimal strategy for the UK back in the 1930s would have been to stay out of the obviously impending conflict, wait for Germany and the So… (View Post)

Watching Tim Montgomerie on yesterday's Newsnight, he doesnt seem very well (View Post)

Which taking a wider view, is why Labour can't (or would have to summon a great deal of political capital and drive if it wanted to) restore local government to the status and impact it used to … (View Post)

Failure to anticipate, perceive, care about, or do anything to mitigate the adverse consequences of her major changes, is the major black mark in her report. (View Post)

and the strangling of local government. Selling the family silver, frittering away the receipts of North Sea oil, stoking the housing market, opening us up to dodgy foreign money, etc. (View Post)