Excellent post. There's also been some surprise on the left in Europe. It changes Britain's image in the world again, for another time. (View Post)

Rory Stewart was great as Prisons Minister, a real breath of fresh air, but he didn't have long. (View Post)

Re; Clarke, Jacqui Smith and others, that was indeed the fag-end era of New Labour authoritarianism, as wooliedyed highlights, and I hope Starmer doesn't go too far back to that, as his Mail-ple… (View Post)

Interesting comments abound on European twitter that Varadkar was half-Irish. So Sunak is in fact indeed the first ethnic minority leader of any european country. (View Post)

Interesting for Indians too that Rishi's ascent comes on the day of DIvaii, the day of the festival of lights. (View Post)