The give-away is that, instead of arguing that trans women (even if they haven't had drug and surgical treatment) should be treated as women, they insist that it it is hateful to mention the bio… (View Post)

The contrast with the message discipline of New Labour is stark. No way they would have allowed the Leader and a senior Shadow Cabinet Minister to contradict each other on a major policy area. Or ind… (View Post)

Yes, the proponents of PR so often make the dumb error of assuming that the parties would remain as they are, and that voters would vote as they currently do. So they add up the current Labour, LibDe… (View Post)

Yes, it's certainly a shambles: Rachel Reeves, this morning: "Keir and I are both very clear, we have no plans to increase income tax and neither of us want to increase income tax, it is no… (View Post)

Rather than giving them enormous leverage in the post-election haggles in smoke-free rooms. (View Post)