Well yes, love him or loathe him, Blair is a genuine legend of British politics. He may well do better than Starmer even now. Cameron was more continuity Blair than Brown in the public’s eyes I would… (View Post)

Yes, people want someone with big personality to paint them a positive vision of the future. That’s why I think Starmer is doomed - all he can do is nitpick and criticise and, even worse, he’s doing … (View Post)

It seems to me to be the case that people are put off ideas they quite like by fear or distrust of the people proposing them. People quite like Labours policies but Labour politicians like Brown, Mil… (View Post)

Well if you acknowledge that Labour only closed the gap because of the Covid crisis then you obviously aren’t one of the people deluded enough to try to ride both horses that I was talking about! Rat… (View Post)

It’s subjective so I’m not going to try and persuade you otherwise, but I really quite like the BBC and would be quite sad if it went. I also think it’s the kind of institution that is good for the c… (View Post)