Except we're 2-3 years from the next election. If KB isn't expecting to be PM, it's fine for her to carry on without a plan beyond heckling the government. Much like Starmer pre-Trusst… (View Post)

Trouble is that the public are equally firmly against the crumbling nature of very many things that the state does. And whilst it would be lovely to believe that One Weird Trick would bring the Briti… (View Post)

Trouble is that funding undergraduates is very much like venture capital. Some will convert that education into not much money (though often a lot of social good- does the state really want to pay fu… (View Post)

Remember the grisly run-ups to Reeves's budgets? Here we go again? (View Post)

The ghost of Keith Floyd waves hello. (View Post)