Maggie beat Callaghan by 7% in 1979 and found herself behind Labour straight away. Inheriting a complete mess from an exhausted Government doesn't make for instant popularity. OTOH Starmer also suffe… (View Post)

Aren't membership of the EU and CPTPP mutually exclusive? Regardless, EU accession is decades away, if it happens at all. There would need to be a prolonged period of very strong public support for t… (View Post)

What proportion of these problems is down to the staff being wilful and the organisation incompetent, and how much is down to the usual problem of too few people and not enough money? Before very muc… (View Post)

Well exactly. Public inquiries have one function, and that's to avoid the need for action. More specifically, whichever minister has called one will have done it to bury a problem that is too difficu… (View Post)

I'll leave aside any discussion of the Boomers as the luckiest generation in history, and instead simply ask: Where else is all the money going to come from? The state is collapsing under the weight … (View Post)