It's certainly a bit too much Yeats's Second Coming. Not so much that that best lack all conviction, but their conviction is to not use passionate intensity, and that tends to be a losing s… (View Post)

Have they taken down the huge photos of Andy R yet? It's amazing to think that Rosindell thought he could maintain use of facilities run by an organisation he had left. Though given his attitude… (View Post)

And governments do that because electorates like to vote for governments that give them concrete goodies in the short term, even if the cost is some vague blowback in future decades. After all, it mi… (View Post)

Issue isn't so much the numbers as their meaning- the move to reduce income taxes, especially their headline rates, has been a steady one for most of my life. So it's not surprising that in… (View Post)

One other thing. The clock is ticking for Rayner, Burnham and Streeting. They're the leading heavyweights now (ha!), but quite possibly won't be in 2027/8. If they, or their "friends&q… (View Post)