The trouble with the Churchill analogy is that he had massive political advantages: An obvious, basically unarguable aim (defeat the Nazis) All the apparatus of the state agreeing with that aim 604 o… (View Post)

Trouble is, "we've all messed up badly for decades, the bill has now arrived, it will get worse before it gets better and lots of you will be dead before the good times return" may be … (View Post)

Can't we use AI to edit them into... Oh I dunno, the Swedish Chef from the Muppets and the Remy the Rat from Ratatouille? Or failing that Graham Kerr and Fanny Craddock. (View Post)

It is, and she ought to be, except for one thing. Bad as she is, replacing her doesn't necessarily solve much, and on balance probably makes things worse. Jimmy C the Catford Kid isn't acce… (View Post)

Yup. I think we can now say that big chunks of the Thatcher model failed, and I suspect that her generation of Tories would have winced at the rentier's rights plughole that the party is now cir… (View Post)