Years ago, parking early in the morning at Glasgow Airport we came upon a fox squatting on top of an ostentatiously expensive car, carefully directing its offering through the vents on the bonnet.
I still smile when I think about a fortnight later when the owner drove home and the engine heated up…

Would that be the royal ‘we’?

They were gains nonetheless, and when they were joined by Jens Stoltenberg they had a ten point surge in the polls. Mark Carney in Canada was similar. Each was in the face of strong populist rhetoric.
Perhaps things could have been different as you suggest - but it wasn’t, and that is no bad thing!

Are you around later this month for a coffee in London?

She is the kind of Labour politician that scares them most - not the trot Corbynistas, not the trying to outflank Reform centrists. Instead a good person wanting ordinary people to have better lives within a well performing but fairer economy. The kind of popular progressive that they know can win!

She is the kind of Labour politician that scares them most - not the trot Corbynistas, not the trying to outflank Reform centrists. Instead a good person wanting ordinary people to have better lives within a well performing but fairer economy. The kind of popular progressive that they know can win!