There was a plan, and the fact of the coalition gave permission to have the Quad to deal with events, which helped with the stability. But some load-bearing bits of the plan were left out, presumably… (View Post)

The point of Brexit was to allow one part of the political elite to get one over on another part. Which it did. And the idea that there wouldn't be an economic hit is for the birds. Remember Bor… (View Post)

Though the coalition's legacy looks less and less convincing as the skeletons fall out of the closet. See Triple Lock, Austerity-by-maintainence-holiday, Langley at Health, Gove at Education... (View Post)

The mortals said we were all bored with the centrist consensus, and wanted something different, new and exciting. So the gods cursed the mortals in the way they always do... by giving them exactly wh… (View Post)

What's the line from Stephen Fry's troubled adolescence- my past stretched out gloriously before me? There's always been a lot of than in the British psyche, and not just growing up on… (View Post)