One thing that strikes me is how toxic it is for the PM to fall out with the Chancellor -Blair and Brown were excellent partners until they weren't, and you can measure the decline in Labour… (View Post)

Basically, as Leon said the other day, African countries saying "We see Europeans are bombing each other, nothing to do with us". It's payback for the collective shrug with which we gr… (View Post)

The one about finding policies which have popular appeal but are just controversial enough to be attacked in the right-wing media? It's a tricky art but great if you can do it! Are you feeling b… (View Post)

A bit of good news from the day job (and congratulations to both Government and Opposition on getting it through with a pretty broad consensus and minimal boat-rocking by everyone). It's actuall… (View Post)

I agree with that. It was clearly right to help Ukraine beat the threat to Kyiv. It's probably right to help them fend off an expansion of the Donbas area under pro-Russian leadership since 2014… (View Post)