And even that's probably changed. A generation ago, the dynamic of elite education was "you're fortunate to be here, and with that great fortune comes great responsibility." That message di… (View Post)
You know what's brilliant there? The Holy Trinity of success: luck, ability and sheer hard graft. I'm all for the last two of these being celebrated and rewarded. But the greatest of these is luck. C… (View Post)
Unless the survivors are very skewed, the remnant in Parliament is less important than the remnant in the country. If the Reform-curious right have more than a third of the MPs, they can get one of t… (View Post)
More likely, your ward still has Labour activists who want to do something and can't be persuaded to work another patch. It happens. A lot of the (previously formidable) effort by Andrew Rosindell to… (View Post)
For a long time, it was. Maggie, in particular, was pretty artful at throwing the right-right enough bones to keep them onboard. At some point in the Blair years, that stopped being sustainable, with… (View Post)