Why would they do that? Farage is awful, but it's not obvious that Badenoch is better. Indeed, by some measures, she is even more likely to jump into the populist deep end. (View Post)

J D Vance walks sadly into his library and returns the biography of William Henry Harrison to the shelf. (View Post)

Surely that's not possible? "I never have gaffes... I never have to clarify.. Because I think very carefully about what I say" (View Post)

Good. I think we all sort-of accept that many of our national problems come from buying too much imported tat on the never-never. There's no path to national financial healing that doesn't … (View Post)

The mistake was when the Triple Lock was created. It's a decent idea to have the state pension drift up a bit gradually for a few decades- the pure inflation lock was making the basic pension to… (View Post)