If the public fucking hate it, then how far would we say these people are good at politics. What does this say about the wisdom of the people who said this was good and smart politics? Does it suggest they know what they’re talking about.

So 'campaigning nous' is a bad thing?

I think it’s probably just force of habit, to express approval by placing someone or something in the middle of the left and right like this, in the self-evidently correct centre. Just seemed like a telling example.

In context, she actually sounds pretty condescending about the pre-Zack Green vibe as well. So, it’s really only a matter of which type of superiority she’s going to assume.

Exit polls in the Netherlands show the far-right defeated by the pro-EU D66 party in today's national election.

Will it bear out?

Learning things is formative, and here’s why that’s bad.