I also think that people are criticising past mistakes - such as with Ajax - but to an extent the MoD is already adapting to a more urgent reality and operating differently. For example, Britain gave… (View Post)

It's interesting to compare to Ireland in terms of political uncertainty. People make a lot of the low corporation tax rate in Ireland when explaining Ireland's economic success. That'… (View Post)

What Farage cannot abide, is being a loser (again). He walked away from UKIP when he could see that the Brexit referendum result had made them temporarily irrelevant. He backed down in the 2019GE and… (View Post)

Where does this idea come from that Farage doesn't want to be PM because it would be too much hard work? The job is huge amounts of hard work if you do it properly (and also if you do it imprope… (View Post)

The other thing about Number 10 North - does it unnecessarily annoy the political lobby journalists? How will that affect reporting on Burnham's Ministry? (View Post)