Trouble is that Starmer is a) wildly unsuitable to be PM and b) better than all the available and semi-available alternatives, both within his party and without. At some point the body politc needs t… (View Post)

But he couldn't say that without appearing to criticise Trump, and keeping Trump sweet was the point of the exercise. (View Post)

Whereas I'm not in the least bit surprised. There is no magic door. There are no ninjas. (View Post)

It needn't even be that. It's a much less Nazi version of the "working to the Fuhrer" dynamic. In all organisations, there are things that everybody knows even though nobody ever … (View Post)

To be clear, he in this context is Olly Robbins. Something has clearly gone horribly wrong here, even if the PM didn't know, and at some point that becomes the PM's problem. (View Post)