One of the things that makes me oppose ID cards is that I just don't think our state has it in them to use them to clamp down on illegal activity. At best they'd be a waste of money. At wor… (View Post)

I think what we needed was an engineer rather than a scientist. (View Post)

Part of the attraction of Thatcher is that, unlike Johnson, I consider her the least worried about being unpopular. But it's such a hard question to answer. PMs are of their time and it's h… (View Post)

If Boris holds his nerve over the next few months, then at least his instincts will have served us well in this part of the pandemic. What we really needed was for @SandyRentool to be PM. :) (View Post)

Do you mean the OBR rather than the ONS? I don't care about forecasts, I care about reality. And the reality is that we're still only back to where we were in 2009. There's a long way … (View Post)