Blair was a good PM, if you can forgive Iraq. Brown was a good Chancellor, until he gave up prudence. Brown was a poor PM, if you can ignore his handling of the financial crisis. (View Post)

The polls are following the script at the moment. Grown-ups are back in charge of the country so the headlong rush to Labour has stopped and there is something of a return to normality, but there is … (View Post)

@kinabalu 'Constantly agitating for the top job and destabilising TB.' That was the main problem as far as I was concerned. He had no ideological beef with Blair; it was just a turf war. (View Post)

I think the No 38 bus goes to Rwanda, or at least it feels like it does at times. (View Post)

The West Midlands are in fact very lovely, or at least they were until somebody put Birmingham there. (View Post)