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)

Trump returning would be a far greater calamity, I think, particularly for democracy. Manchin and Sinema may have just destroyed a once-in-50 year chance for FDR-style social renewal in the United St… (View Post)

He has plenty of instinctive, opportunistic political cunning I think, but very little wisdom. That would also be consistent with being poor at the job of governing, itself. (View Post)