Received wisdom seems to be that this spring is continuing a trend of sparkling sunny springs (followed by dull humid summers) in recent years. I’ve just been looking at the Met office stats. It’s no… (View Post)

The Lib Dem succession is fairly clear: almost certainly Daisy Cooper. In tenure terms she is virtually a veteran, such are the short careers of most of the party's MPs. The challenge will be timing:… (View Post)

Such has been the ideological drift of the Tories in recent years that Boris would probably be the centrist candidate in a future leadership contest. (View Post)

The whole thing reminds me of a very large scale version of Armenia-Azerbaijan, with Kashmir being Karabakh. Similar levels of spite and petulance, similar use of conflict as a proxy trade show for d… (View Post)

It suggests unfortunately that the Indian middle class is very online, and embedded in its own Twittersphere where the alternative facts rain down. (View Post)