I suspect only a tiny fraction of the people in Britain now expressing profound grief had even heard of him before his was murdered. PB is the most illustrious and informed political website on earth… (View Post)

Quite frankly Rees-Mogg is turning the man's death into a circus. Yes, we know Rees-Mogg knows some Latin. He doesn't have to parade it on this occasion and make it all about him. Poor taste in my op… (View Post)

Hunt seems to be experiencing something of a revival. He did an interview on TriP several weeks back, and it seems a lot of the leftists and centrists dads got in touch to say, more or less, that he … (View Post)

Was the sacking of Mandelson the wisest move? Surely it feeds a sense of panic and the notion that a hapless government was duped. I would have thought they'd simply order Mandy to resign: 'While I'v… (View Post)

Reform can get stuffed. Farage, for all his many public forums and a grovelling media, was a complete bystander in this affair - too busy sauntering off to the US to bad mouth his country and diminis… (View Post)