Generally, I'm very uncomfortable that governments can be brought down by the shenanigans of the financial markets. The idea that high financiers, hedge-fund managers and greedy speculators can … (View Post)

I'm not persuaded that the new line of defence ("it's all the fault of the independent Bank of England - nothing to do with us, guv") from the handful of remaining Truss/Kwartengi… (View Post)

At her first PMQs, I thought Truss made a genuine effort to be different from Boris and answer Starmer's questions. Depressingly, today showed she's given up. We're already at: Q: What… (View Post)

JRM was excruciatingly smarmy and patronising on R4 this morning. He ended up accusing the interviewer of being in breach of the BBC Charter because she had the temerity to suggest that there was a l… (View Post)

Zero. Unless there's a party he's invited to. (View Post)