There's a catch, though. An awful lot of the success of Thatcherism was being in the right place at the right time. Peak oil, falling dependency ratio. And some of the good times in the 80s did come … (View Post)

Incidentally, well done to Torsten Bell for pushing back on a silly, nasty bullshit story that the Mail, Telegraph and Times ran today; https://bsky.app/profile/torstenbell.bsky.social/post/3m46v466v… (View Post)

Gosh, that's quick... A councillor who quit the Conservatives to join Reform UK earlier this month has stepped down from the party after 20 days. Grantham councillor Mark Whittington will now sit on … (View Post)

Now we know which adverts are wasted. The ones seen by Sarah Pochin MP. (View Post)

But it saved money in 2010 and the costs were going to be paid by someone else in the future. Frankly, it serves all those future people right for not speaking up at the time. (View Post)