Changing the subject totally, here's an incomplete map of London's elections by ward; https://bsky.app/profile/owenwntr.bsky.social/post/3mljrn7a7ws2g Striking thing is that Reform's w… (View Post)

Slightly unfair; about 200 of those MPs arrived less than 2 years ago, and I think it's OK to rule them out for now. Even the 2019 intake are still on the undercooked side. But when you look at … (View Post)

Of course not. They've all gone absolutely tonto. It's the boozy, demented futility (© Boris Johnson) of the late Major years. OK, I don't know whether they're drunk or not. In a … (View Post)

For starters. Then there was the prisons filling up, the Afghan refugee fiasco and a pile of other stuff I've forgotten. There's a lot that's dismal about the Starmer government, but i… (View Post)

The more laws there are on the statute book, the harder that gets. It's a bit like the difficulty of building new underground lines in central London; anything you want to construct has to not c… (View Post)