Yes, I’ve seen that said in that sarcastic James O’Brien esque way before, and I dislike it. I’d actually disagree; the people running the country through those times should have been allowed a drink… (View Post)

My other half asked me what a spin doctor was the other day; I thought she must be joking Then again, I had a solar panel engineer round today who told me it’s going to cost ‘Nineteen ninety five’ to… (View Post)

I think it goes back to image, and a tendency to cast people in roles as either heroes or villains that is as old as the hills - because Boris was a cavalier, scruffy, unscrupulous and dishonest but … (View Post)

… The point is that he was brought down by something that Sir Keir more or less did (well he did exactly the same but was let off on a technicality), yet is distrusted by opinion poll respondents whi… (View Post)

It is quite astonishing that Boris was brought down because he let other people have a drink after work, but that work (running the country) didn’t have a loophole that allowed it, whilst Sir Keir di… (View Post)