I think Boris is divided between an ideologically flexible people-pleaser, which I would see as the more positive side of his personality, and a fiercely ambitious calculator. It's very difficul… (View Post)

Quite so. This is because from the late 1970s the New Right presented the welfare state simply as a timeless artefact of moral indulgence and decadence, without placing it in its historical context. … (View Post)

I'd be very happy to serve under Susanna Reid. (View Post)

We're all allowed a wobble in this situation Cyclefree. You're a pillar of reasonableness so regularly you've more than earnt it. (View Post)

If UK broadcasting got back to the level of seriousness of the early '90s, before Birt's refoms and the Broadcasting Act had had time to feed through, that would be another addition to cap … (View Post)