Not a problem for many (the willingness to lock down has been consistently underestimated here) - if infections soar again, older people in particular will remember that 90% is not 100% and stay at h… (View Post)

I think you're making too much of one gesture. He doesn't strike me as particularly given to responding to pressure from any quarter. (View Post)

Yes, there's two separate points. First, many Red Wall seats like Mansfield and Hartlepool are no longer as traditionally working-class as people think. Lots of people of different backgrounds a… (View Post)

I don't disagree (and I'm really as uninterested in ostentatious patriotism as you get without being actually insane). I don't think most voters (even most Tory voters) consciously thi… (View Post)

I heard an interview yesterday with the then Director of Public (NB!) Prosecutions, who clearly was completely unaware of it until now. The issue seems to be that private prosecutions were regarded a… (View Post)