Tom Tugendhat on Radio 4 blandly says that £2 billion of fraud in Iraq shows what a splendidly strong economy Iraq has developed. There's a man who will always find something nice to say about his ho… (View Post)

Broadly agree, and Corbyn as PM in 2017 would bean interesting counterfactual for someone to explore. This particular poll needs to be weighed against the Redfield one yesterday showing Lab down 6 (m… (View Post)

Yes, that's true. My mindset is still focused on the well-building/road-building/hospital-building model of foreign aid, and giving the dosh to the Home Office so they can rent some hotels for migran… (View Post)

Getting overseas aid back up to 0.7% and stop fiddling it by using it for migrant hotels or disguised export subsidies would be a good start. Nobody expects us to send a sudden £X billion cheque to Z… (View Post)

Not convinced, though I get the idea (rigid application of a policy with unexpected bad consequences is bad). To give a counter-example, I prefer the relative precision of the ECHR to a general assur… (View Post)