As a onetime classics scholar I must say this is rather good. Perhaps we can have a mournful farewell to Starmer done in the style of Catullus? (View Post)

Agreed - it’s an odd perspective. Maxing your credit card in an emergency is a different prospect to maxing it in normal times and then expecting to still have it ready to help out in emergencies. Of… (View Post)

This is the piece that baffles me - there’s a vital debate about how on earth you cope equitably with the economic devastation on the horizon that the left seems mostly uninterested in... (View Post)

A wise man once said “if we were guided only by precedent, manifestly nothing in our procedures would ever change.” Surely the govt is just following his advice? (View Post)

Hasn’t the strategy always been to flatten the peak to protect the NHS as Covid inevitably works its way through the population? I thought that was made quite clear. The timing of lockdown lifting is… (View Post)