Exactly. Rayner is a soft-left figure with cross-party appeal, which is just one part of why this is loopy ; let alone all the other considerations. (View Post)

The Binface operation has beaten Corbyn and Peter Gammons. Other parties will be poring over it, inevitably. (View Post)

On Brexit below, a considerable proportion of the Tory parliamentary and extra-parliamentary party were supporting it. The cabinet itself was split. The Tory Brexiters were not the anti-establishment… (View Post)

The Union was originally held together not only by money but amnesia of historical differences. Scotland's history is that of an entirely different relationship with the European continent, and … (View Post)

I agree with both you and kinabalu here. An anachronistic copy of New Labour and its ideology is clearly not the answer, but the British left urgently needs a new narrative of optimism. Starmer hasn&… (View Post)