The problem with Private Eye (and I'm a subscriber) is that it gets some things very right and others horribly wrong (e.g. Andrew Wakefield). The problem with vetting is that it's more than… (View Post)

Remember that Reform voters mostly want a nanny state. The key thing is that nanny will give sweeties to those who deserve them and a sound spanking to naughty boys and girls. (View Post)

Hence the psychodrama on the left. In the 20th century, there were barely enough places like Birkenhead, with the problems of Birkenhead, to sometimes deliver a Labour majority. As time has gone on, … (View Post)

If only Dominic had been in a position to do anything about this stuff. (Please tell me that McSweeney isn't going to have a similar ghostly afterlife.) (View Post)

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)