One of the interesting things about the press, though. The Mail, Express, Telegraph etc are much better at being loyal to their party than the Mirror and Grauniad. So the meaning is different- when a… (View Post)

Though that rather feels like the "there's a secret door and the government ninjas are behind there" expectation. Consider the stuff that only came out in the Epstain email dump. Eithe… (View Post)

Starmer got rid of Sue Gray because she and McSweeney couldn't coexist. And from that misjudgement, all the others followed. God save us from political gurus who can't even be bothered to g… (View Post)

It's the mirror image of Boris. What Burnham has going for him: 1 He wants the job- really wants the job. Contrast with Starmer and (I suspect) May, who didn't and it showed. 2 He has a pol… (View Post)

Or you accept that the wrong sort of people are always going to be attracted to mega power, and that the best protection against that is to distribute that power in smaller lumps. At least then the p… (View Post)