"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)

The usual answer is to have enough noisy performative nationalist populism to distract the proles from the plutocratic gangsterism that's going on quietly on an industrial scale. Question is whe… (View Post)