Two flawed assumptions there, Big G. One is that politicians do well by doing the right thing for the future of the country. All the evidence is that that's not the case. On your calculus, Thatc… (View Post)

Alan Clark's Diaries, from November 1990. His emphasis. Maddeningly, I had to return to the Department. Meetings, and an official lunch. Scandinavians. ‘I assume that there is no likelihood of M… (View Post)

And any plans for government made before 2022 (I doubt there were many, too) would have had to be binned, given the economic effects of Vlad and Liz. And then there's all the unexploded bombs Ri… (View Post)

It's a dismal game, but going poor to catastrophic, I'd go May, Starmer, Sunak, (big gap) Johnson, (huge gap) Truss. Johnson brought disgrace on the office and Truss was mad. The other thre… (View Post)

Dan was bound to get that story right in the end. (View Post)