Inexperience at politics, due to being catapulted too high too fast. His ambition may well have been Lord Chancellor, but the people in front of him were mown down, leaving him as the last least-bad … (View Post)

There's nothing for Keir but fear itself. FPT: There's nothing wrong with PMs delegating stuff. It's probably the only way out system can work. And it's sensible that SKS delegates the "politics… (View Post)

One might hope so. What happens if Congress votes, and the Administration says "sorry, the shredder dog ate all our copies"? I'd love to think that they have Really Got Him This Time, but e… (View Post)

I'm reminded of a comment made by a Private Eye hack that many newspaper corrections add to the inaccuracy of the newspaper publishing the correction. (Yes, that seems paradoxical, but consider that … (View Post)

Even when things were going well, it was consitently about 1 a week for years; https://data.justice.gov.uk/prisons/additional/releases-in-error We didn't care, beause we didn't know, because it wasn'… (View Post)