Also needless to say, this Trumpist tendency towards the deliberately provocative and shameless has spread well beyond Britain. Zemmour and his comments on Dreyfus are in the same deliberately provoc… (View Post)

In the long term it depends, I think. If we continue on Trump's American trajectory to greater and greater shamelessness being seen as the greatest post-modern asset, then yes, but if a differen… (View Post)

Major would never have contemplated making his own brother, Terry Major-Ball, a Lord, as Johnson has done with his. There's both the traditional Tory, grandiose hubris and degradation after a lo… (View Post)

It won't be long before the next standards scandal. The government have re-rigged the appointments process to make Dacre a shoo-in at Ofcom. They've now changed the job description and inte… (View Post)

Patterson also a leading Brexiter, ofcourse. So strange that it all these calls for greater accountability and popular sovereignty seem to end at the doors of the Commons. (View Post)