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)

And part of Starmer's problem throughout has been that plenty have hated him from Day One. Including the fans of Boris and Jeremy who blame the Boring One for being in the room when they shot th… (View Post)