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)

It is the business of the wealthy man To give employment to the artisan. The only downside is that the enhanced GDP will make Rachel Reeves look good. (View Post)

Isn't the general principle that hardly anyone reads actual newspapers these days? The papers take themselves seriously, and the broadcasters like "tomorrow's front pages" as a predictable … (View Post)

Echoes of the by election in Batley in 2021? Both the Reform surging and Starmer dead stories have been a bit overdone in recent months. (Not that they're wrong, but they're not that unambiguously ri… (View Post)

A fair bit of the SNP has always been pretty right-wing; see Kate Forbes in whichever leadership election it was. It was a bit obscured by everyone being to the left of Thatcher and then the uncomfor… (View Post)