Harsh on Burnham- he doesn't just tell Labour members what they want to hear, he tells everyone what they want to hear. Just like another big city Mayor who returned to Westminster. It's a … (View Post)

Degrees of uniting people. There's the "All behind you, Winston" of the David Low cartoon. Wartime Churchill probably was the last PM to manage that, and that's probably for the b… (View Post)

He spent most of his life not being a politician, no wonder he's not much good at it. Much the same was true of Sunak. It's a fairly weird skill set you need to develop. (View Post)

Same reason we apparently need to relearn the lesson that Nazis are a bad thing. We've had getting on for seventy years of peace and health and whatnot, and come to take it as read, rather than … (View Post)

Well, we haven't had much boom since he left office, have we? (View Post)