It's the difference between events and fundamentals. Weather and climate, noise and signal, actions and character. Short term is more visible, and frankly more interesting. But the long term is way m… (View Post)

Au contraire. Reform know exactly what they are doing. It's utterly dishonest government, but excellent politics. That's why they're so dangerous. (View Post)

Old Jokes (one about Harold Willsoon) revisited; Surely no Labour politician is going to go out of their way to undermine a Labour Prime Minister? Oh, Burnham would... (View Post)

It also gives someone new sufficient time to come through the ranks. Who knows, they might even be halfway good. (View Post)

Does responding require us to inconvenience ourselves? The thing to remember about isolationism, the reason that Trump and MAGA like the idea so much, is that it's fundamentally selfish and short-ter… (View Post)