Thornberry won't win. Her constituency is adjacent to Starmer's - not a good look to have a North London Leader and Deputy. It will be Phillipson or McGovern, I think. Powell is too dull, and the oth… (View Post)

I don't have a problem with the BBC giving a lot of coverage to Reform, given the trajectory of the opinion polls. But I do object to that coverage lacking analysis and sometimes being positively syc… (View Post)

Early days and probably just an outlier, but I did speculate a couple of days ago that the glitzy Reform conference, and in particular the platforming of Lucy Connolly and Aseem Malhotra, might turn … (View Post)

It could be worse. As well as having an anti-vax chap linking Covid vaccines to royal cancers, Reform could have also invited a convicted criminal who incited folk to burn down hotels occupied by asy… (View Post)

While that is true, it's not inevitable that the data moves one way, towards us being even less racist. There are worrying signs that racism towards certain groups is becoming more 'respectable' agai… (View Post)