Meanwhile, in other "meet the new boss" news, Former Conservative party deputy chair Jonathan Gullis has been selected as Reform UK's group leader at a local authority in Staffordshire… (View Post)

Which bit of "maybe" are you not understanding? Besides, having a load of restauants and pubs that the comfortable can afford to patronise, because of the low pay (probably topped up by ben… (View Post)

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)