The Conservative Leadership Process (starting with gathering anonymous notes, ending with drawn-out cycles of allying, backstabbing and bitchy gossip) is almost exactly what a bunch of teenage girls … (View Post)
Talking of which, another bit of "can't confirm until the Spending Review, but here's a bit of ankle" story... An “HS2-light” railway line between Birmingham and Manchester would be built u… (View Post)
Good luck putting that on an election poster. And yes, "horrible" is OTT. But "grindingly mediocre" takes more characters. Every time one looks round, another thing that makes our… (View Post)
The language here possibly a bit OTT for a politics prof, but he has a point, I reckon. The truth is that everyday day life in Britain is utterly horrible for most people. You can't see a doctor, fin… (View Post)
Having been in a room he was working (after the first batch of scandals, before the second)... JA isn't conventionally likeable, but he can electrify a room of ordinaries and you can see the point. H… (View Post)