Incidentally I’ve been driving around East Fife all day. It is really a beautiful corner of the world. Handsome little stone built villages and towns, misty rolling countryside - with dramatic hills … (View Post)

I have no particular badger in this baiting pit, but it’s surely healthy that heterodox opinions are heard at party conferences. We’re not gonna haul Britain out of its managed decline without some r… (View Post)

Fear of what?! Reform aren’t Nazis. The knicker-wetting is absurd As for Labour I note that both John Harris and J Freedland are essentially calling for Starmer to quit, in today’s Groaniad. The main… (View Post)

Yes. I read it. He discovered exactly what the Guardian reporter discovered - a genuine sense of optimism allied with serious money, scale and intent. Yet also a sense it could go wrong For that he i… (View Post)

The Guardian report on the Reform conference is fascinating https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/sep/05/such-a-vibrant-feeling-reform-uk-devotees-gather-party-conference It seems to be the one p… (View Post)