Not much overlap between "people following this story closely" and "people who haven't made their mind up about the key figures already". Very few one-off events shift the po… (View Post)

Whilst I would like to think that our secret services could arrange such a project, one of the alarming possibilities coming out of recent news is that they can no more organise a pissup in a brewery… (View Post)

Blame Dave for that. One of the first acts of the pure Conservative government after 2015 was to tie up onshore wind farms in enough planning red tape that they largely didn't happen. That'… (View Post)

One of the things that smug old-school Conservatives used to say was 'Our opponents hate us and think that we are evil. We don't hate our opponents, we just think they are mistaken.' I… (View Post)

It solves all sorts of other problems, including what to do with towns that have lost their old employer and aren't really connected enough to be commuter bases for productive cities. And ensuri… (View Post)