Keir Starmer undemocratically folding under pressure from *checks notes* the people's elected representatives

You might be able to justify any of these policies individually (perhaps even asylum one) but together there is no coherence. Number 10 might think each is a brick in a staircase leading to the election. I just see a pile of bricks.

I hope you are right James...

Spot on.

The thing that I find especially baffling is that given the central place WW2 and the fight against fascism has in our national myth, it should be quite simple to make the argument you are outlining.

How often do politicians get a legitimate excuse to channel Churchill!

The growth data would suggest you might be right!

Still US approach not without flaws either, think you can draw a straight line from Covid cheques -> inflation -> Trump 2

*like to use

Champagne socialist is not a label I normally like, but one does rather feel it applies in this situation

"I picked a bad day to quit sniffing glue"

I was thinking this the other day, suspect as we see Trump slide into full blown authoritarianism Farage's US connections might come back to bite him.

Seems underdiscussed?

They've just shot themselves in the foot with this change, it's the perfect moment!

I am once again calling for a British newspaper to do a British English version of the NYT games app, so we can all be freed from the tyrany of having to look up American sportspeople

Hopefully they listen to him - he talked a lot of sense in his resolution foundation days

Let's hope investors agree with you!