Someone might get great personal satisfaction in negotiating our leaving the EU, but I doubt there'll be much fun to be had in it. The real mess would be if we have to negotiate Scotland leaving at t… (View Post)

Indeed, and I'm all for MP's having second jobs as long as they fulfil their first job to their constituents and the public, and the other job(s) do not create conflicts of interest. But that's very … (View Post)

You can't split technological and medical advances off and ignore them. In fact, part of the reason why the relationship between state and population has become more complex is because of technologic… (View Post)

And when Labour did it for private tenants, that was not 'nasty'? All governments produce legislation that disadvantages one section of society to the advantage of another: sometimes those disadvanta… (View Post)

The Nimrod MR4A project was poorly conceived by the previous Conservative administration, and shamefully continued by Labour years after it was obviously a dead-duck project. It should have been canc… (View Post)