I despise this genre of post. Ostensibly cheery tone, but clearly designed to gaslight and mock the millions of people who are rightfully unhappy with the very real decline of our cities.

You know, despite having been a Tory member since I was 16 (I'm 55!), I honestly don't care - because I hate this govt so much - what vehicle, Tory or Reform, is used to eject Starmer from office and install a proper centre-right (much more Right than Centre) administration that

This feels like a hallucination. Considering the things ministers and civil servants resign over, he should be out *now*.

Forget hyperbole. This is unacceptable. Such people cannot be in positions of power.

Everyone closely associated with Blairism turns out to be an unspeakable traitorous shit in latest shock news

Adam's message - my condolences on the loss of his uncle - struck hard. My father died barely five years older than I am now, after less than a year of retirement. My mother died eight years older than I am now. Always think how to maximise the enjoyment/value of the time you

Ministers told Parliament this was a "completely indepedent" decision by CPS and they were as surprised as everyone else. Now Ministers are saying it was "Jonathan Powell in cahoots with the Treasury"

Oh my God.

Very helpful summary from Neil O'Brien. The Govt's position seems to be that (1) no one of any seniority knew anything about the year-long discussions with the CPS and (2) no individual in government actually took a decision to refuse to argue in court that China was a

Are we really asked to believe a single civil servant is alone responsible? I fear he may be being made a scapegoat. Why not publish the evidence, publish the correspondence between NSA and Deputy NSA, and have the NSA answer parliamentarians’ questions?

Lord Butler has accused the government of being "economical with the truth" in the China spy case. That means the PM has now been contradicted by: 3 Cabinet Secretaries 2 heads of MI6 1 former DPP 1 former NSA >This is unprecedented

There we have it. The Prime Minister KNEW the China spying case was about to collapse and did NOTHING because he’s got no backbone. He’s too weak to stand up for our national security. A shameful dereliction of duty.

Why Statisticians Should Be In Charge Of Everything For Ever, part 694. (Also: why Andrew should have a regular column in an intelligent publication, part 694,000.)