No, it shifts from right to left and back ; I would say that's more of an empirical fact. You now have a much larger number of right-of-centre ( on economic matters at least ) staff in in its jo… (View Post)

It's a grim day for the BBC, and its independence, with both the Attenborough and Lineker stories, but it's been also a long time in coming, so people shouldn't be too surprised. Peopl… (View Post)

I personally think the division is between the English big cities/university ones and the red wall/ middle England. London, Brighton, Bristol, Oxford, Manchester, Newcastle, Liverpool all have more i… (View Post)

On Ian's comment, this is what the makes the presence of soft-left non-authoritarians like Ed Miliband within Labour so important. Owen Jones correctly notes in his article today that some of th… (View Post)

Yes, I have to say that I'm not that keen on this sort of thing either . The more authoritarian days of New Labour being something I don 't particularly want to see back. (View Post)