They have, again, done about as well as their rating as a team suggests. Top four, but not top two. Which is boring, but a huge improvement from what used to happen before 2000ish. (View Post)

claro There aren't even any national anthem lyrics to learn. (View Post)

Suddenly the FIFA Peace Prize doesn't look so dodgy. (View Post)

The job has beaten Starmer, but it beat Brown, May and Sunak in similarly dismal ways. In each case, it's not clear that there was an obviously better alternative whose path they were blocking. … (View Post)

Besides, it would be good to get back to having a choice of plausible sucessors to the Prime Minister, and that basically means that the Chancellor and Foreign Secretary need to be at least semi-plau… (View Post)