I subscribed to the FT digital during lockdown - initially out of solidarity with a friend who has a weekly column, but discovering it was actually good in the process; but I haven't touched a p… (View Post)

I agree. The "ability" axis and the "life course experience" axis are quite different. We can have a diversity of people in parliament whose earlier life course is more like "… (View Post)

I agree with your thesis that the best and brightest have given politics a wide birth for a number of years now. This tends to mean that "competent managerialism" is the best we can hope fo… (View Post)

"We still expect a small Conservative majority" (c) 1997 The Entire Cabinet up to and including the first results coming in. (View Post)

Yes. (View Post)