It would be the sort of appointment that would signal the definitive death of the old idea of a neutral civil service that would carry on serving a new government as impartially as it served an old o… (View Post)

Yes. Which was nine years ago, and was only a minor part of the ridicule Ed "Hell yeah, I'm hard enough" Milliband suffered at the time. It's very much a niche joke for a niche gr… (View Post)

Estimating fraud levels is obviously an uncertain business, which provides quite a bit of scope for people to suspect that the estimates are being underdone. What I would say is that, with so much of… (View Post)

I thought I was just on the right side of the friendly banter/annoying troll divide. Keir Enables Irritating Revolution? (View Post)

The politics of immigration has caused the opinion poll lead of the main opposition party to evaporate ahead of Parliamentary elections expected within less than twelve months. Unfortunately for Suna… (View Post)