Same principle as the movie conversation yesterday- all the good recipes were worked out long ago, so how else are you going to make a recipe book, except by overcomplication? (Sorry Nigel Slater, th… (View Post)

The hard bit won't be the politicians. Trump's circle can take the last plane to Moscow, and there is a vaguely functional party ready(ish) to take over. The hard bit will be all the other … (View Post)

Which is what has fried the Conservative Party. For centuries, it was a deeply cynical pragmatic organisation, because the point was to win and keep power. Which worked quite well for the country, be… (View Post)

The trouble is that ditching Badenoch would be an example of the standard political fallacy: We (Conservative MPs) must do something. This (ditching the leader) is something. Therefore, we must do th… (View Post)

The party as was, or left wing carpetbaggers? As for share in the polls, remember the lesson of the Alliance. Vote share is vanity, seats are sanity and swapping first place in Waveney Valley for imp… (View Post)