I really hope this isn't true, but... Are we getting to the point that it's simpler to defualt to assuming that everyone, especially everyone in the public eye, is a terrible human being? P… (View Post)

Please let the conclusion be Betteridge's law. The remaining 58 minutes can be filled with repeats of The Day Today and Ferdinand de Bargos. (Kuenssberg is a symptom of a wider problem. She'… (View Post)

There's a tension here. On one hand, forcing individuals out of government is one of the few bits of achievement that an opposition politician can point to. The role is inherently negative, and … (View Post)

One of the theories doing the rounds on Centrist Dad Bluesky is that one of the causes of all of this (does scan across the entire burning horizon) is the rise of stories based on anonymous briefings… (View Post)

That assumes that there is someone both capable and willing to be a better PM than the last few. I'm unsure that there is. One of my mental models of the state of the nation is the sort of 1980s… (View Post)