I've been catching up with Alastair Meeks' columns, notably the current one on Johnson's successor. Bewilderingly he seems to have only 7 followers. I suggest that most people here wou… (View Post)

Yeah. We're coming at this from a situation of acute public health crisis, so it looks great by comparison - it IS great by comparison. But if we normally had an epidemic of anything - even flu … (View Post)

Thoughtful piece in the New Statesman from an anti-lockdown but pro-vaccination writer: https://go.pardot.com/webmail/509131/857446775/c6b3ba6eb7f1f7122e1db8c788c0a32548f06577393f574ca4ccbf016518b77b… (View Post)

The pressure is similar in effect to my complaining that Labour needs more interesting policies. Starmer knows perfectly well that leftists like me will vote Labour in the end anyway, so he needn… (View Post)

Well, I know roughly what I'd do (off the top of my head, serious incentives for investment and some direct investment, improvement of public transport links, adult retraining expansion, finance… (View Post)