And which was ofcourse entirely to do with prevailing Conservative intellectual currents of 20 years standing. Brown's hollow shell had nothing to do with, and was not of a piece with, any Labou… (View Post)

Quite. And the banks were too big to fail and the entire global financial sector so outsize partly because the lines of social responsibility had long been cut by London and New York. (View Post)

This was in exactly in the era that our Brexiter hero, Daniel Hannan, and an influential voice in the party wrote an article suggesting that Britain should adopt an even lighter-touch "Icelandic… (View Post)

It's strange. It's both a horrifically fascinating and politically relevant combination. I feel strangely drawn to watching it, like a 1970's crime drama shot in seedy and smoke-filled… (View Post)

We need that for Johnson on a permanent basis. Apologies, in advance. (View Post)