Suspect it all goes back to Currygate. Hodges has been waving his fist in the air and saying "I'll get you, Penelope Pitstop Keir Starmer" ever since. (View Post)

Quite. Considering the 2024 manifestos, none of them were fully honest, but the not-Labour ones were more dishonest about the possibilities. That hasn't changed under Badenoch's leadership … (View Post)

To paraphrase Yes, Minister, if Rayner gets the job the party will fall apart in three months. If it's Streeting, it will be three weeks. In the Hackerverse, the solution was to put Jim in Numbe… (View Post)

In America, that might be an election-winning coalition. (View Post)

Which is why Starmer got the gig in the first place. The junior ministers and shadows of (roughly) 2015-2022, the people who ought to be in their political prime about now, got destroyed in the vario… (View Post)