To be clear, he in this context is Olly Robbins. Something has clearly gone horribly wrong here, even if the PM didn't know, and at some point that becomes the PM's problem. (View Post)

You want a leader? Someone women want and men want to be? The ultimate gentleman spy? Irresistible to women, deadly to his enemies, a legend in his own time? Austin Powers is standing for Greenwich C… (View Post)

Thanks- makes sense. Though isn't the implication of our Gulf-dependence that even that process struggles to make sense in the UK in pure business terms? One of the lessons I took from the pande… (View Post)

Presumably in normal times, it's not worth it. If carbon dioxide were really that valuable, free enterprise would be capturing it from power stations and cement works for profit. In normal times… (View Post)

Leaking stuff to the Times, ideally as a pseudonymous letter, is a great British constitutional tradition. Leaking stuff to Preston is a great way of convincing us that it's nonsense. (View Post)