Steady as she goes until the budget now, I think. We're about to hit silly season, for Labour's sake I hope they've learned the lesson of just shutting up for the next 6-8 weeks rather than floating … (View Post)

In essence, we need a real small-r reforming government, akin to Attlee or Thatcher, and perhaps even more radical. The problem is that a government of that type needs real guts and drive from those … (View Post)

Kemi would be stupid to go on this today. Which means it’s entirely plausible she does, but I suspect both sides will stay oddly quiet on this one. (View Post)

No matter one’s views on this it is absolutely breathtaking that some news organisations think the sacking of the presenter of a cookery show is more important than this story. (View Post)

It feels to me that the key issue here is how long this injunction was sustained for, and how the government seemed to tweak its justification for it from purely being on security/protection grounds … (View Post)