Two important catches, though. Replacing a London bubble with a Manchester bubble does very little for Newcastle, Norwich or Newport. And Manchester can do a much better job of looking after itself t… (View Post)

But also, not every pound is equal. The second pound is less useful than the first, the third less useful than the second, and so on. Personally, I'm not sure that the first 50k would be more us… (View Post)

But were they? Putting the personal immorality to one side (and AB is definitely cleaner than BJ), the essence of Boris was his line about having your cake and eating it. That's a brilliant line… (View Post)

Is that Friday's Big News? I'm not convinced that "the PM is having a WFH day" is going to cut through as much as the others. Distributing power- great. Changing the location of t… (View Post)

Is that the rate-limiting step? Suspect that getting planning permission and overcoming the local opposition (probably inevitable wherever you try to put a new prison) are much more relevant. I suppo… (View Post)