A genuinely good piece of news on the growth figures this morning. I have had a downer on Reeves for some time (and I will not change that opinion overnight) but I have to acknowledge that growth is … (View Post)

This morning has shown both the strengths and weaknesses of Keir Starmer. It has once again shown up he has no political conviction that he is scared of breaking if he thinks it will make him more su… (View Post)

I understand that viewpoint, though I think that the ground was laid in the mid noughties for the issues we see coming to light now. The problem was that policy makers were by and large successful at… (View Post)

Well, I agree that this is a positioning tactic from Labour that they probably had to make, in light of the threats they face. They need to at least do something to try to neutralise the issue. The j… (View Post)

Quite - but then a lot of us got burned by suggesting that it was historically exceptionally unlikely that an incumbent government with a majority of 80 would be replaced by a different majority gove… (View Post)