Not to me - he seems competent and proactive, unlike a number of his colleagues. Lots of politicians are not conventionally handsome, but people get used to them. The last really good-looking PM in t… (View Post)

I was chatting with a senior civil service official who I happen to know - she works as a head of department in a different controversial area which I won't identify - about how the Ministerial … (View Post)

You often say things like this, Big_G, and I don't bother to pick them up every time, but it's factually untrue, and perhaps you should reconsider your stereotype? My understanding is that … (View Post)

While I don't share your increasing gloom (though I do obviously share your glints of hope), I think you're right that it's what is being set up. The demands specifically to save Chris… (View Post)

I don't think anyone is saying he broke the rules. But there's a cognitive discrepancy - if it was a family holiday, it's seen as insensitive at a time when small businesses were screa… (View Post)