I will give you 'charismatic' and 'election-winning' for sure, but they don't make you a good PM -- they just make you good at getting the job of PM. He may have been also &#… (View Post)

I think there are two difficulties with that analogy -- the size of the "club", and the reach and importance of the activities under its control. As a club gets bigger, it gets more importa… (View Post)

Grant Shapps' answer to this one (about a different programme, maybe the covid-themed one) was that he didn't watch programmes about situations/people/organizations he'd been closely i… (View Post)

Yeah. We seem to be terrible at just getting on and building stuff and surely part of the problem must be that not only do we take forever to decide to do something (spending a ton on studies and pre… (View Post)

...whereas today the cabinet couldn't run a bath... (View Post)