The current solution to social care funding is for local councils to not do anything nice at all. (Our local library has just been announced as for the chop. For all it is small, part-time and close … (View Post)

"This is the unvarnished truth" is one of those tells that someone is lying, isn't it? (View Post)

Isn't that bit already a bit "fantasy maps in the Berlin bunker"? If there's an economic meltdown, the next election will be as late as possible (15 August 2029, fact fans... OK, … (View Post)

The third problem is that Labour are still at the stage of opening closets and having skeletons left there by previous governments fall out on them. It's amazing how little object permanence the… (View Post)

One of the Yes, Prime Minister lines where the writers surely weren't joking was Jim Hacker's threshold for sacking a minister- when their messup could have been reasonably anticipated at t… (View Post)