Cummings was right. She's properly bonkers. She is, however, not entirely stupid, and she's shameless. (View Post)

Of course, you are right. I was looking at it from her point of view - how could she execute the necessary screeching U-turn and arrest the immediate market decline with at least a semblance of not b… (View Post)

There is a potential route for the government to retreat from the abyss with admittedly some humiliation but in a way which could be spun as not total humiliation. It's basically to follow the advice… (View Post)

Nice phrase from Rafael Behr (who is always a good read): The Tories are debating their options under Liz Truss like a party of chefs fretting over different ways to unscramble eggs. https://www.theg… (View Post)

But that still leaves the black hole of her tax cuts. If the new government had made no changes to Sunak's planned measures, we'd be in a position where the public finances would be looking OKish (th… (View Post)