This is from the Office for Budget Responsibility, in 2023: The message is, don’t be disabled in the UK: we really do not support those
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If we had a wise Home Secretary
I have to share this from The Guardian: The co-founder of Palestine Action has won a legal challenge to the home secretary’s decision to ban the group
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Nigel’s flatlined
Two charts from the FT this morning. The first shows something I have suggested for a while, which is that Farage is now flatlining when
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Teetering…
As the FT notes this morning: Tech stocks had a bad day yesterday. So did markets in general. Amazingly, markets apparently realised that AI might
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Conflicts of interest
It is widely reported that Sir Keir Starmer wants Dame Antonia Romeo to be the new Cabinet Secretary, having sacked the last one he appointed
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Someone’s got to get muddy
What’s the problem with British politics? The public seems to know, based on the opinion polling reflected in this Tweet:What is the answer? This was
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Even the civil service are pushing back against Starmer
Prime Ministers can usually expect a high level of support from their civil servants. Until they alienate them, that is. And it looks as if
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Where should we hold our next event?
As previously advised, our event in Cambridge is now sold out, and so far, we have no new returned tickets to offer to anyone on
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We are cursed
This country is cursed. In particular, it is cursed by the University of Oxford. These are the last six prime ministers and their degrees: Name
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