This desperation to appease the right has been clear for a decade or so. What the right accuse as “left wing bias” is, to be quite frank, just a fairly standard, evidence backed, realistic, centrist approach. TBQH they just can’t handle that their beliefs and approach doesn’t set the agenda

It is worth going back to watch. Before this he spent years radicalising his base, but he spends an extraordinary amount of time ranting about the election. That he was in some way responsible for what happened in Washington that day is an unavoidable conclusion

So make no mistake, this is a coordinated assault on one of the cornerstones of British civic life from people who want to weaken our democracy. Sadly, the BBC is so cowed it will actively abet them in its own destruction.

Of course we need to hold the govt to account to make things better, this is their job, but shouting at the current govt over how/why it’s got so bad, I don’t think is useful. The Conservatives spent 14 years making everything worse, wilfully, as a result of their decisions, ask them

Cry laughing every time I see that

These days, believers in free trade are generally found on the Left and Centre. The Right is now intellectually incoherent on this front.

Frost looks ready to embody this incoherence – someone who actively damaged free trade but then heads up a free trade think tank.