It would be good for half the country. For a while. (View Post)

Voting Green might (mostly) make no tactical sense, but how many of their voters are bothered about that? A lot hangs on that question. Plenty of voters across the spectrum are happy to cut off their… (View Post)

There's a catch, though. An awful lot of the success of Thatcherism was being in the right place at the right time. Peak oil, falling dependency ratio. And some of the good times in the 80s did come … (View Post)

Incidentally, well done to Torsten Bell for pushing back on a silly, nasty bullshit story that the Mail, Telegraph and Times ran today; https://bsky.app/profile/torstenbell.bsky.social/post/3m46v466v… (View Post)

Gosh, that's quick... A councillor who quit the Conservatives to join Reform UK earlier this month has stepped down from the party after 20 days. Grantham councillor Mark Whittington will now sit on … (View Post)