Burnham's uturns seem to have been politically nimble avoiding political damage. The Uturn to achieve clean air targets in GM using electric buses without the need for a clean air zone clobberin… (View Post)

Closing off all options for their opponent to get the one thing that matters out through a narrow defended gap while sacrificing their own ability to do the same. (View Post)

Ok a couple of weeks. On checking Brown became PM 16 days after launching what turned out to be an unopposed leadership campaign. I'm not saying that it need be quite that quick. But it's t… (View Post)

Reading between the lines of the briefings reported here, it seems that Starmer would like to hang on for the best part of another 3 months. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jun/21/keir-star… (View Post)

The point is that the absence of a written constitution makes a democratic nation especially vulnerable to becoming a dictatorship through a constitutional route, because the checks and balances that… (View Post)