It's a rather mild protest, really. The question will be if the Chinese do any actual push back. I suspect not - it's a small issue, really. (View Post)

Indeed. There is a strong suspicion among the more thinking people in banking, that debanking has been weaponised by Russia, China and others. There is a pattern of reports on people hostile to such … (View Post)

As head of the CPS, his job was to create a working policy *within the existing policy framework*. And then manage an organisation which was strictly hierarchical. Anything he ordered to be done, was… (View Post)

There were a series of completely unforced errors that tanked Starmer's reputation with the Labour Party and the MPs. Who are not exactly alt-right. And it was especially the left of the party h… (View Post)

Yes. A reform of old age benefits which reworked them to be targeted at the actual poorest, would have been perfectly possible to sell to Labour MPs and the country. Put the whole lot in a blender, c… (View Post)