The maddening thing being that there's no intrinsic reason for houses to be as expensive as they are. We've just collectively voted for policies that make them so. And that has meant that t… (View Post)

More importantly, we have been for decades. And more subtly, we treated short-term windfalls as long-term entitlements. And all those bills have finally turned inescapably red. (View Post)

The thing about 'clever + idle = great leader' is that it depends on self-awareness of why you are being idle and knowing when to throw that saved energy into an essay crisis all-nighter. A… (View Post)

Sunak. Was never going to be great, excellent General Staff, hopelessly undercooked for the top job. (That he couldn't tame the job is the job's fault, not his. Ditto May, ditto Starmer.) F… (View Post)

Though that's partly a manifestation of the central mystery. The people whose CVs best qualify them to be next PM (Cooper, Lammy, Reeves, Mahmood) are nowhere in this chatter. Maybe they genuine… (View Post)