One thing the British State has been very good at in recent years is creating all sorts of new labyrinthine solutions to problems that could be fixed perfectly well by dusting off historical preceden… (View Post)

“The prime minister has asked for this to be urgently looked at and the prime minister believes that Peter Mandelson should not be a member of the House of Lords," a spokesman said. “However the… (View Post)

Hmm. I’m still unconvinced. It shows a shocking level of judgement (Mandelson clearly wasn’t an appropriate figure for the ambassador role) but Starmer has done his usual trick of hiding behind proce… (View Post)

We can rush through legislation in a day. There’s no barrier to it. I think, as @bondegezou mentioned earlier, perhaps the unsaid concern is the precedent it sets. (View Post)

It gets worse and worse…. What didn’t he leak? (View Post)