On the topic, re "After John Major’s miracle in 1992 things quickly fell apart for the Tories, who went behind in the polls before Christmas and never regained the lead", in Major's recent … (View Post)

Now there's a fun hypothetical policy -- the government specifies the amount of money it wants to raise and a few other constraints, and then a technocratic HMRC chooses what levels of income tax, VA… (View Post)

If Boris told me something that turned out not to be true I know who would be first on my list of people likely to have been duplicitous, and it wouldn't be Rishi... (View Post)

I was glad today that I brought my selection of random euro coinage with me to Vienna because the luggage lockers in this museum want a euro coin... PS the Habsburgs had an astonishing collection of … (View Post)

On the other hand if you have a strong religiously derived set of moral views and are in a position where you can speak on a political subject that intersects strongly with those moral views (not gre… (View Post)