FPT: Why Director ID is needed is beyond my paygrade, but I can fairly easily imagine the abuses that it's meant to deal with. But to do that, there is clearly some admin that needs to be done. … (View Post)

Unfortunately, wild ambition beats disinterested public service as a means to get to the summit. Which is why so many of our leaders behave the way they do, both as they climb the greasy pole and whe… (View Post)

Probably. First, Badenoch isn't as good at politics as Kinnock. Second, the right seem to be going for 'Starmer lied' rather than 'Starmer was hopelessly incurious '. Which s… (View Post)

And a fair bit of the success of Thatcher, Major and Blair was about being in the right place at the right time. The time when the boomers were net taxpayers as much as anything else. They were happy… (View Post)

It's ot as if he's totally green as to the nature of conversations here. (View Post)