Interesting comments, but focusing on the last one - when I was PPS in Defra, I was surprised to discover that it was long-established Government policy by both parties to rule out any attempt at foo… (View Post)

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)