And fighting the populist right doesn't mean tacking left. It means pointing out the fatuity of their populism, and providing Conservative solutions to the underlying problems. Not co-opting the… (View Post)

Isn't the truism that Prime Ministers only become interested in foreign affairs when they've given up trying to make things better at home? Blair was an unusual case there as he came in on … (View Post)

But if they don't do 2 and 3 they might as well not bother at all. There is *nothing* they can do that will fix 1 - Farage will be there twisting and turning in the wind and spouting his populis… (View Post)

I would be working hard on a series of broadly technical "alignment" measures to make it easier to trade and study in the EU and vice-versa. (View Post)

1. "The situation" is broadly unresolvable to the satisfaction of the populist right. Rwanda was not a solution to that problem. It was part of the "do nothing real, just play politics… (View Post)