So his first Prime Ministerial broadcast will feature Stravinsky and a Modern Art backdrop, then. (Which is probably for the best. The last couple of years have been about the government taking the o… (View Post)

Being against Starmer is infinitely easier than being against Burnham. That may not be entirely fair, but that's politics. (View Post)

One of the advantages we've had in recent decades is that thuggish politics has been fronted by thuggish people. Thuggish politics fronted by a rich, articulate old bloke in a suit is a novelty.… (View Post)

I hipe you're right. The counter to point 1 is that, although our problems are nothing compared to those of the 1930s, so is our tolerance of problems. And the technology of whipping up a nation… (View Post)

Sorrynotsorry, as the young people say. In a way, it highlights how talented Nigel Farage is as a purveyor of socially reactionary comments. He knows how to flash an ankle of fash; most of his rivals… (View Post)