Truss had one good potential card to play. She is not a good communicator or orator, so the tactic had to be: “I know I’m not the smoothest but I can get things done, I know how government works, I w… (View Post)

So let’s think about what happens next in the Tory Party psychodrama (FWIW I’m rather fed up of Tory Party psychodrama. Since 2016 it’s been one thing after another). What I’m pretty sure won’t happe… (View Post)

Premiership is dead and buried. Only question now is how long it takes Tories to realise it and whether they try to remove her. I don’t think she’ll still be PM by Christmas. (View Post)

I first watched Threads in the early 2010s, when there appeared to be little prospect of nuclear war, and it utterly disturbed me then. So watching it now is not, I fear, particularly well advised. I… (View Post)

May PM. Sunak COE if he wants it, IMHO. It’s a leadership team designed purely to head off collapse in 2024, nothing else, but I think it would reassure the markets. If Rishi steadies the ship he’d t… (View Post)