He sounds amazing, and lived a life most of us won't achieve. I'm so sorry that he's gone but it sounds as though he had a very good friend in you. All the very best. (View Post)

That's also the response to the accusation of mysogyny. I rather like Liz Truss - she remains notably calm under fire, as even the ever-unpleasant Quentin Letts admits, and her occasional shy sm… (View Post)

That's the rub, though. Say replacing Liz by X reduces the Labour lead from 25 to 15. If it can only happen with an election soon afterwards, that's still a mass purge of Tory MPs. If you&#… (View Post)

Perhaps you're onto something there - she may feel that a freeze in public spending, equal to an 11% cut in real terms, might be sold as "no cuts". (View Post)

Because most people don't follow politics closely, it's broadly true that they only worry about one or two things at a time. At the moment, most people aren't especially thinking about… (View Post)