The basic problem for the Tories on immigration/asylum policy is that they've been in power for 13+ years. In opposition or when a new govt. it was an effective issue to bash Labour on as large numbe… (View Post)

There's a reason it only has worked in China though - where tech companies aren't fully autonomous of a centralised authoritarian state and consumers are used to choice only up to a point. An 'everyt… (View Post)

For a while now, Mattel have been pushing the idea of Barbie as inclusive and feminist - they do lots of PR with female scientists, have released dolls with various disabilities, etc. The movie is th… (View Post)

Sunak is of course intelligent and hard-working, but I wonder if he's something of a victim of a version of gifted/privileged child syndrome. Namely that he's experienced very little adversity in lif… (View Post)

Lawson's mates are being performatively stupid here because he's thrown a tantrum that rules apply to him. Firstly he's not been expelled - he's been asked to account for an allegation that could lea… (View Post)