I wonder if it has occurred to Burnham's team that his inability to stand might be part of the reason for her precipitate action? (View Post)

I'm not sure her solution would work “My preferred option is for the cabinet to do a reshuffle within itself, where there's plenty of talent, and for Keir to be given a different role, whic… (View Post)

Have they? I think their problem is that they've been kaleidescopically bad. Through whichever facet you view them, they look plausibly terrible. (View Post)

Gordon Brown seems to be a well-intentioned man, who was a bad Chancellor lucky enough to live in largely good times, tested to destruction by "the global financial crisis that started in Americ… (View Post)

Funny isn't it how they somehow never come up with these brilliant plans *before* the electoral drubbing but 24h later they are poised to leap into the brave new future, fizzing with ideas. (View Post)