As you hint in your penultimate sentence, virtually all of the reduction in the CS numbers was illusory. Maude and Osborne contracted out huge numbers of functions. Where numbers were genuinely cut, … (View Post)

No, they're real, but their numbers are still relatively small. It's a relief that they'd never visit London, though. The problem with Anderson 'and his mates' is that they a… (View Post)

More free advertising for an unknown Spectator columnist. (View Post)

Mark Harper's plans to spend oodles of HS2 money on local transport, starting in 2025, is yet another addition to the long list of things that the Tories intend to do when they are no longer in … (View Post)

In his late mother's donkey's name. (View Post)