And yet when the Mail, among others, really did turn its investigative fire on the government, for only a few weeks after Paterson, look what happened. Part of the reason our democracy is failing is … (View Post)

It really is extraordinarily. The government is simultaneously working with its favoured press to drip-feed exactly the opposite story to its voters. According to the Daily Mail today here, for insta… (View Post)

We seem to have a very bizarre cross between radical, or near-radical nationalists on the one hand, and culture warriors including a group imported from the old Revolutionary Communist Party, like Mu… (View Post)

Sadly I don't think that some of Starmer's team, who have shown themselves to be quite flat-footedly wedded to the Blairite template in too much of a literalist way recently, would go for t… (View Post)

And there are more than a few other leading Tories rumoured to be on good terms with Boris's "powder rooms of North London" in media circles. (View Post)