I'm not sure I'm shocked. Starmer's honeymoon bounce was only to 30% approval, and it was always going to fall, because that's what always happens. Ultimately, we demand too much from our governments… (View Post)
Methodist by upbringing and instinct, she converted to Anglicanism later in life. https://www.theosthinktank.co.uk/comment/2015/07/22/god-and-mrs-thatcher (The Co-Op as a threat to small shopkeepers … (View Post)
On one hand, 45% of the electorate will back Trump no matter what. On the other, 55-45 is a landslide in a two horse race. The reality of FPTP is that loyalist voters don't matter, which is why parti… (View Post)
Or to half-remember a PJ O'Rourke line, it was like robbing a bank, stealing all the little pens and nothing else. All the interesting new things there, and they took the uninteresting thing they und… (View Post)
Anyone remember when they started moaning in '97? (Ian Hislop was good on this in a recent Private Eye podcast. We think of Blair having a long honeymoon, but the Ecclestone scandal was pretty early … (View Post)