For a party that made a huge advance at the GE, has the luxury of opposition, and with the new government enjoying the briefest of disappointing honeymoons, the Lib Dem polling has been really crap. … (View Post)

Reportedly Starmer has been pushing for US approval to allow Storm Shadow strikes into Russia, and it is also being suggested that supplies of the missiles were being held back so that they would be … (View Post)

I think it's fair to say that Britain currently faces bad choices and worse choices, both politically and economically. So any budget could reasonably be criticised in numerous ways on political… (View Post)

They're banking everything on improving the NHS. The cynics might cry that it's a black hole and the extra money will disappear without trace, but I don't think it's as bad as tha… (View Post)

Osborne announced a review into merging income tax and national insurance. Rarely does much come of a review these days. They seem to absorb and deflect the impetus for change, rather than to focus i… (View Post)