I think of all the mad and bad things that Trump has already done, and already said, and I'm surprised that there are so many people who think that this will be the thing that convinces voters n… (View Post)

I began reading Will Hutton's contributions to the Guardian/Observer about three decades ago, but I have long since stopped bothering, as you know that his thesis is always simply wish fulfilmen… (View Post)

And that logic is the same for the membership - the membership of British political parties is much lower now, which means there's a smaller pool of people to select candidates. A healthy democr… (View Post)

I didn't think much of the Diane Abbott story, but my mother seems concerned. She's sent me an email with the subject line, "Diane Abbott" and the body reads: "So. It's … (View Post)

Obvs the PB Tories will prefer to talk about something negative for Labour, but if this had been handled better then they wouldn't have had any material to work with. Same argument as applied to… (View Post)