If you are keen to serve, you should stand for some other elected post. If I as a voter say "f*** off* then off you should f***. In a democracy my word is final, and absolute. (View Post)

All other political appointments however are made precisely for improper reasons. Supporting the PM. Donating to the party. A bung for being rejected by the electorate. Etc etc. Giving a place to you… (View Post)

What this tells me is that we should end political patronage and the habit of giving people stupid titles. A Labour government would be just as bad (and has been in the past). An elected chamber with… (View Post)

It's a basic error in one of the figures being used to track progress - all-settings deaths with COVID. At the beginning of the pandemic it would have made very little difference. However now th… (View Post)

Patrick Vallance was on Civil Service Live this week. he reckoned, with the benefit of hindsight, that completely closing the borders would have been effective, if done in *early February*. In fact h… (View Post)