There's an interesting comparison to 2007 in that the best option for the party, and with a chance of winning, wasn't taken as it posed too much risk to the principal. The fact that Brown should have… (View Post)

Given Ukraine manage it despite being under constant aerial bombardment, I tend to think the bar for "the country isn't working" should be somewhere above "has a functioning power grid… (View Post)

Speaking as a sub-40 who remembers Major as a kid and Blair, I think that's close but not quite right. Economics is the killer, but would be survivable and reversible because it always is - there's n… (View Post)

She's persona non grata in certain groups within the Labour Party, and a hero to other ones. And of course, twas ever thus. Different bits of the Labour Party have been tearing chunks out of other on… (View Post)

Indeed, the problem for the Tories isn't that they are doing badly among the Under 50s, it's that they are doing catastrophically badly. Comically badly. They aren't just unpopular, to all intents an… (View Post)