Besides- somebody has to win, even if that somebody is a nobody. The Conservative party is still too moribund, Reform are too Marmite (Farage loses every head-to-head) and the Lib Dems are too locali… (View Post)

To a greater or lesser extent, it's true of most of the media these days- even the more wholesome bits. What is truly alarming is the extent to which the constraint of having some scrap of reali… (View Post)

File under "dishonest framing of partial truth"; So why would that be? Well, the Children and Families Act 2014 meant that educational services such as speech and languages therapy and occu… (View Post)

We know what needs to be done, but not how to win an election doing it. There's a kind of Prisoners' Dilemma dynamic here. If every party signs up to acknowledging arithmetic, there is a wa… (View Post)

And even on its own terms, improving the Conservative performance at the 2024 election, it seems to have failed. If any government had the "we're going to lose, so let's make that defe… (View Post)