Maybe businesses that employ the low-paid should be paying them more, or acknowledging that they don't really have a viable business. Maybe we have too many hospitality businesses for our own go… (View Post)

That is the other lesson of the last week. What people say on the record, let alone off the record, isn't necessarily true. One of the problems of our polity is that we have journalists telling … (View Post)

Something close to current government policy, presented with a bit of oomph, confidence and chutzpah has at least a bit of a chance of working. Why hello, Mr Burnham... (I'm not sure I approve, … (View Post)

Number of votes is vanity, number of seats is sanity. Corbyn enthused lots of people to vote for him, but even more to vote against him. And whilst it would be lovely for a party to gave a candidate … (View Post)

They think it's Moldova... (View Post)