That's the key thing. At the moment, he's popular because he doesn't really have to do anything unpopular. As they are right now, that's the advantage of being a Mayor. (And I think the last time he … (View Post)

How long before the first "we never get to fly on a nice airline- do they get free tea and crossaints?" moan piece? Make them suffer like the rest of us. Get them tickets on Ryanair. (View Post)

Security, mostly. In schools, you can use uniforms to filter who should and shouldn't be there. Take that away, as most sixth forms do, and you need some other means of identifying friend and foe. Th… (View Post)

Corollary: whilst stemming/stopping the boats is necessary, it won't be sufficient to placate a significant slice of public opinion. For them the Blairwave and Boriswave were such awful things that t… (View Post)

The potenitally saving grace is that it's a temporary thing for this individual, not a failure of the entire concept. Mr Justice Sheldon said the man's lawyers must do all that is possible to make fu… (View Post)