The problem for Sunak is that being perceived as on top of his brief will count for nothing if he's also perceived as being out of touch. This is potentially Mordaunt's strong suit - being … (View Post)

Well, "we" in this case being 37% of UK adults. The poat-referendum negotiations, if in any way democratic, should have reflected how wafer-thin majority this was. (View Post)

Yes, I would tend to agree with that. She also had remarkably little to say about Reagan's endless illegal activities in South America, East Asia and Iran, for instance. Overall I agree on the s… (View Post)

A key problem for the government on the economy is that the pandemic is receding into the background, and the equal or greater pressure felt by other economies as a result of Ukraine, particularly th… (View Post)

And the responsibilty for that is, in fact, partly shared by Thatcher herself. Her government's handling of the diplomatic run-up to the invasion was woeful ; the loss of life could have been so… (View Post)