Given the size of the public debt created how could that be otherwise? (View Post)

That is exactly how I see it. The political argument around defence is so depressing. The Tories - we'll increase defence spending, a little, eventually. Labour - we'd like to increase defe… (View Post)

Are you reading the same thing as me? It explicitly states in the guidance that kids should be taught about "gender reassignment" - i.e. about people being trans and having that recognised … (View Post)

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)