I'm reminded of Miguel de Unamuno's retort to the Nationalists in 1936 "you will win because you have brute force but you will not convince".

This Labour government gives me the impression of being run by the middle management at Wernham Hogg!

The bland managerialism of the latter New Labour government and at the time that was bloody awful!

Further to that position the last PM who reformed it in the name of progress did untold damage to it. For shame!

You really have to have no morals and be dead inside and even lacking in anything remotely identifiable as a human being to profit like this much less act in Trump's interest.

But that is Tony Blair for you!

www.ft.com/content/0b1b...

Macmillan read Aeschylus in the trenches and went to bed with a Trollope, even Blair read political biographies. Tom McTague recently said our PM isn't political. Then he has no business in politics and should perhaps have become attorney general instead.

From the Times! We used to have Prime Ministers well versed in political history. Starmer is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom if he cannot be bothered to Google (or have an aide do it) references then he best not make them. Post modern technocracy at its bloody worst!

Once again on a stuffy Friday evening the trains are delayed. Once again I will be home at *God knows when*. Trains in the UK are a joke!

Can we please have a drama series called Jenrick about a hard uncompromising Tory leadership contender who plays by his own rules and solves crimes in his spare time? Preferably in a gritty town in the north.

Adolescence is the British answer to the Wire. I really recommend it to anyone who hasn't seen it. It's a ln essay in TV form and the mirror we have needed to be held up to society for so long. Of course the far right hate it.

The idea of appointing an ambassador who argued that we should bend the knee to a convicted felon who has an advisor who both incited violence on the streets of the UK and will fund a party led by another who incited violence and will undermine your own government is a cynicism of a dangerous kind.

We don't have Labour or Conservative anymore. We have two wings of the free market party who regard this country as one great Monopoly board.

A tradition going back 500 years flogged off!

www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

I can't be the only one who finds it odd that we sing songs about winter wonderlands and yet we have extremely mild weather.

At what point does "above average temperature for this time of year" become "average temperature for this time of year. We have had warmer winters for the past few years now and mild weather is becoming normal. I remember when I was a child walking in thick jumpers in December was a thing.

The ongoing stasis won't be solved by pathos in the public arena but solutions to the civil strife which draw not from the causes of the stasis but remedy them. The question the Prime Minister should be asking is "how can I make people's lives improve?"