It's very hard to both provide the right wing red meat to squeeze RefUK, and present a moderate face to the Lib Dems and others that provides greater comfort than Starmer does. Impossible, even. (View Post)

A 5% swing compared with 2021 isn't particularly good (even if it amounts to that when the more outer bits of London come in). 2021 was a pretty good set of local elections for the Tories. I thi… (View Post)

It's a bit of spin that suits both Tory and Labour leaderships really. Sunak got some headlines this morning about rebels calling off their dogs based on some bright spots in the gloom - the win… (View Post)

Trump is the kind of man who'll forgive you for dragging a puppy to a gravel pit and shooting it in the face, but not for claiming to be more familiar with his friend Kim Jong-un than is strictl… (View Post)

I don't think there's any suggestion John Bellingham was inspired by political cartoons - he was a bankrupt businessman with mental health problems. Satirical cartoons just are grotesque an… (View Post)