I think mandates are slippery things. On the one hand, Brown had been a key architect of the 2005 manifesto and was deeply involved in the Government beforehand. On the other hand, some of the stuff … (View Post)

Indeed, and that's what gave Truss the legal right to Govern. Mandates are not a legal concept. Having a mandate from her MPs would have helped her too but, since she was complaining that MPs di… (View Post)

In politics I think bulletproof is a relative, rather than absolute, term. Some politicians can survive one 'bullet', others can survive many. Some can survive a hit that would end another&… (View Post)

Ah, I had missed this! It suddenly struck me, with polls going the way they were, talk of a fakearendum had boxed the SNP in to an awkward corner. Still, if the base take it seriously, that could bri… (View Post)

Rhiannon Lucy Coslett, the author of the first article bemoaning the middle classness of owning books (despite her name being incredibly middle class), once wrote an article about the horrors of … (View Post)