I believe that the only way the BBC will survive is by getting rid of the licence fee. The BBC has a collapsing share of the audience, and that completely undermines the rationale for the licence fee… (View Post)

I think the "big idea" is to take what money is left over after cuts and tax rises and stick it on investment, banking on that delivering a bonanza in later years. Unfortunately I've heard … (View Post)

If Trump wins in November, unfortunately that is still a real possibility, everything Labour wants to do will go in the bin, and we will have a full-blown defence crisis to deal with. (View Post)

If Labour had had this stuff in their manifesto they might still be in government today, but quite probably without a majority. All those parallels drawn with 1997 look really silly now. (View Post)

. Efficiently doing the wrong thing is still doing the wrong thing. (View Post)