I’m usually ok board with your TV takes, but Last Salute is irredeemable (save, maybe, for the very last scene).
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I’m usually ok board with your TV takes, but Last Salute is irredeemable (save, maybe, for the very last scene).
It’s another one of those issues which could be fairly easily solved with sums of money which wouldn’t even touch the sides in the NHS/education/social care - but no one puts funding for trading standards officers on the sides of buses.
I seem to have been right once again.
It looks overwhelmingly likely that he'll have to be sacked anyway, so may as well do it quickly. I cannot fathom what contribution he could possibly make vs the potential damage of keeping him around.
There's a quick and easy answer to this which is to sack Josh Simons. He's a McSweeney stooge and clearly a total wrong 'un who should never have been selected in the first place, let alone be made a minister.
After almost 25 years of activism, increasingly at fairly senior levels, I’ve realised that the people whose political judgements I trust most have come up through mill. They’ve fought hopeless campaigns in unwinnable seats, or been councillors, etc. They’re the people whose instincts you want.
But even the worst politicians usually have better instincts than advisors. There’s something humbling about submitting yourself first to party members for selection, then to the public for election. You gain an ability to sense vibes and spot clangers in a way that advisors just don’t get.
It’s an amazing coincidence that so many of these ‘gurus’ end up being lauded by the commentariat for masterminding a win, but when a party loses it’s all the leader’s fault. No one piled-on to Stewart Wood, Spencer Livermore, etc, in 2015 – Miliband shouldered all of the blame.
Hopefully this marks the end of the Rasputin-esque figures in British politics. They emerge every few years, usually after big wins (cf. Campbell, Cummings, McSweeney) and almost always end in disaster.
There’s a common theme emerging, which is the questionable judgement not of Keir Starmer, but of Morgan McSweeney.
the FT had by Saturday night broken two stories showing that the Mandelsons had taken over $100,000 from the world’s most famous paedophile
by Monday we were all writing various stories about him leaking sensitive state secrets to Epstein
they could have easily pulled this puff piece in time
Service in turn isn’t always the most efficient, nor is it always the fairest. Bar staff should absolutely be able to prioritise the regular at the bar who just wants a quick pint over the guy who only comes in on a sunny day and wants to order six cocktails. (2/2)
My folks own a pub and this would never be tolerated. The space isn’t set up for a queue, and all their staff are enormously experienced and know how to manage a busy bar. (1/2)
Thinking with my interview panel hat on: when asked why he wants to resign as Mayor and stand for Parliament, having previously resigned from Parliament to stand for Mayor, what good answer could he possibly give?
The level of quixoticism at this point is like Kemi Badenoch spending all day trying to win over Your Party voters. What part of ‘no’ does Blue Labour not understand?
Scotland is a classic example. In a classic bit of virtue signalling they basically decriminalised everyone under the age of 16, all the while failing to adequately fund either diversion of the Children's Hearings system. Result? A culture of total lawlessness among Scottish teenagers.
I'm generally a liberal on justice policy, but this, quite simply won't work. The major flaw is that it pre-supposes the existence of a social welfare/youth work system to provide such a diversionary approach. www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
Prior to knocking off for Christmas, my colleagues and I decided to ruin a Christmas favourite:
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Right. I've seen enough. I don't care if they try to bin me from the NPF or whatever. Starmer and Co clearly don't care how much damage they're doing to the Labour Party and the sooner they're gone the better.
I think I might be the first person ever to have written about Lon Fuller, Clark Gable, Marlon Brando, and Mel Gibson in the same piece.
Last week I got hooked on 'The Pitcairn Trials' podcast, so I wrote a blog about the appeal to the Privy Council .
law.coventry.domains/scholarship/...
I think I might be the first person ever to have written about Lon Fuller, Clark Gable, Marlon Brando, and Mel Gibson in the same piece.
Last week I got hooked on 'The Pitcairn Trials' podcast, so I wrote a blog about the appeal to the Privy Council .
law.coventry.domains/scholarship/...
saw this at the time as a callow youth
I think we all know who should be doing the World Cup Draw later:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xPD...
I suspect you have to be quite racist to stand out as "the racist guy" at a boys public school of the 1980s.
I see the Irish political class is fawning over Zelenskyy all the while spending less than any other developed country on defence, contributing nothing to Europe’s collective security, all the while pretending they’re neutral (which the patently aren’t).
I'm struck by how conservative some of the purportedly liberal, campaigning barristers sound on this - especially in the context of decades of research raising serious questions about the soundness of juries.
re the jury proposals in england it looks like they are going for the approach which exists in scotland where the accused in no circumstances has a choice of procedure. Somehow this has operated without civilisation falling apart with specified maximum sentences for sheriffssitting in summary cases
