"Wily coyote" is a slightly odd phrase to use, since isn't it a nod to the cartoon character (Wile E. Coyote), who was famously hapless and inept, and up against a much sharper, quicke… (View Post)

It just isn't a very good news story for Farage if he is awarded relatively derisory damages but has to pay substantial costs (even if someone else picks up the tab). There's a real risk th… (View Post)

It's true that, over the course of a period in government, you collect enemies like a rolling stone gathering moss, and they tend to be a bit stickier than the friends you make. But I think you … (View Post)

Not sure about this. The pendulum always swings eventually, and you can't really be a Secretary of State whilst offending nobody. That's not a defence of Clarke's record at Health and … (View Post)

Who else remembers Yates's Wine Lodges? Ah, them was the days. (View Post)