Whilst one should be very very cautious about contradicting the Curtice, there's an important slice of the Boris 2019 vote missing from the Reform coalition. That's the "I may not like Boris, bu… (View Post)

Parallel universe time: Boris as permanent host of HIGNFY since about 2003. (View Post)

To take a point made by both Rory Stewart and Sam Freedman (yes, I know, Centrist Dad Central, on the other hand, they were eyewitnesses) it was known that Truss was eccentric and mega-ambitious, but… (View Post)

Trouble is that revenue spending benefits us now, capital spending benefits future us, who are largely them. You need a strong social taboo to stop people eating seedcorn, and that taboo has been gro… (View Post)

And that attitude is part of the reason we're here. There's an interview with Nathaniel Fried, the DOGE-UK techie, in today's Times; Fried said he found “genuinely ancient” IT systems that were “near… (View Post)