The Occamite answer to why Shabana Mahmood is Home Secretary is that she has done a decent job at Justice of defusing the prison places fiasco bequeathed by the previous government, and so she is HMG… (View Post)

I think the answer on tax'n'spend is that many Reform voters assume that it's possible to cut undesirable government spending- whether that's on immigrants or public sector fat ca… (View Post)

Though a second alert in less than a minute is a rotten trick to play on us. (View Post)

Had this been a real emergency, your phone would now be melting in whatever was left of your hand. (View Post)

And the failure of social care system has meant that the NHS was unable to promptly help someone in need. It can't be that all our problems are fundamentally about a collective unwillingness to … (View Post)