An effective Civil Service is almost impossible when the Government makes short terminst decisions by media and opinion poll, and with little long term strategy at all times. If a Government at least… (View Post)

I always assumed that the meaning behind the original phrase from May of "Brexit means Brexit" was misinterpreted and tied her into a corner she never meant to go. I thought it meant "… (View Post)

The comment on this issue has been entirely predictable and entirely depressing. It is based entirely on the basis that the justification given for the change is false. Ie. that a traditional perform… (View Post)

I would suspect that Johnson’s “new supporters” are high in Covid scepticism - or at least sceptical about the Government’s economically destructive approach to combatting it. (View Post)

All the comment articles claiming that Trump is going to win are often based on the same failed assumptions that convinced them that Corbyn would win in 2019 - exaggeration of the power of social med… (View Post)