Oh yes, dear old David would've crushed it as Labour leader. Leaving aside bottling challenging Brown when he had the chance, playing his part as a very senior cabinet minister in the 2010 elect… (View Post)

I just find the Miliband stuff still being a thing quite weird. In the real world, people go for promotion if they think they've got a good shout and a good case to make. I might not throw my ha… (View Post)

I fear a lot of those are likely to be suicides. There are about 7,000 suicides a year in the UK, and about 5% of them being by jumping into rivers is not implausible. (View Post)

Arguably, someone killing themself doesn't intend to drown themselves as such (or poison themselves, or strangle themselves etc). They just intent to end their life. In terms of the recording, I… (View Post)

Baldwin is an odd one to include in that list. For Callaghan and Sunak, you can make a case that they were doomed fag-end PMs, who had a pretty bad hand dealt to them by their predecessors. You can s… (View Post)