If it's like the weather in Far East London, God has been doing His best. (View Post)

The anti-ETA marches in Spain in 2000. (By that stage, ETA was on its last legs militarily, and going for horribly soft targets, with lots of collateral damage.) It simply wasn't on, and the Spa… (View Post)

Mandy will do what's best for Mandy. It's not obvious that cathartic revenge on Starmer is in his interests. It's not what he did after his previous resignations, is it? (I did like Ro… (View Post)

At the very beginning of the Johnson premiership, Private Eye experimented with a Wodehouse parody of Boris and Dom. Which did get to the satirical heart of the matter. I think it was called Leaves a… (View Post)

In which case, stand by for tax rises. The markets can vote against a government in minutes. The backbenchers can vote against a PM in days. The public can't vote against a government until 2029… (View Post)