In summary, everyone would like a better alternative to Starmer. Partly because he isn't very good, and partly because having a PM hang around this long is boring for political hacks. Trouble is… (View Post)

Wanting the Premiership should disqualify you from taking the role. Unfortunately, not wanting the job (which I think was the case for Starmer) doesn't help much. (View Post)

A fair few on the right were saying that Boris would be a disaster, but it was too easy to shout them down as victims of Brexit Derangement Syndrome. Which was a brilliant bit of sloganising. (View Post)

News media have always had to juggle reporting what's important with reporting what's entertaining. Different organisations did that in different ways. The more worthy ones would offer you … (View Post)

Yes. Even more so in Sunak's case, since there was bound to be an election within the year. The repeated fall of Prime Ministers since 2015 or so has been bad for the nation's government an… (View Post)