We laugh, but he has seemed to me to p*ss off a sizeable chunk of people in a very short space of time. I find him oddly charmless and rather prickly. He can probably afford to p*ss people off, if he… (View Post)

I think people can be depressingly puritanical on paper, but I’m not entirely sure I value the results of such polling. Oftentimes I think it is an instinctual response of “do you like/would you want… (View Post)

I’m distinctly underwhelmed so far. I hoped that we would see some boldness being introduced into policy making and questions starting to be asked about how we tackle the structural issues in our ins… (View Post)

I don’t actually have a problem with the government seeking to, over time, phase out smoking. I’m an ex smoker myself, and I have little love of the habit. There is however a proportionate and measur… (View Post)

There were a couple of phone ins on LBC like that the other day. People can pay more in tax and they should pay more in tax, but those people aren’t the dear caller, oh no, it’s some other nebulous g… (View Post)