Yes. The weirdest thing about the 'culture wars' is that the Tories seem to be repeating the mistakes of those they claim to oppose. There are some fair and reasonable criticisms of what gets called … (View Post)

PFI started under the Tories. Once Brown and Blair pledged to stick to Tory spending plans for the first few years of their administration to avoid the obvious attacks, there wasn't much money around… (View Post)

I think the Tories' problem is twofold. 1.) So-called Red Wall 2019 Lab-Tory switchers may be reverting to type and going back or giving up on voting for a big party altogether. I'd be interested to … (View Post)

Problem is that the Corbyn era showed why it was a mistake to pretend that some on the far left were harmless eccentrics to be patted on the head and indulged a bit, as Miliband certainly did and Bla… (View Post)

True. But I think there's a specific issue for Labour and the left in that the really far left come from a fundamentally different place to the rest of Labour - even those holding generally very left… (View Post)