Patently Rubbish

 Tom Paine is always a recommended read, but his recent post on immigration nails it.
Politicians talk about people being in favour of immigration, or not (, or racist, or xenophobic...) but it isn't that simple.  Like many groups, immigrants are not an homogenous lump.  Some are a positive benefit to the UK and should be welcomed with...

 This is a huge and many-faceted question, of course.  The choice of possible points to raise is as enormous as, well, the scale of their defeat.  So I'll probably come back to this in future.  But there's one that I want to flag up immediately.
That's the Truss issue.  No, not her appointment as leader & PM*, I'm referring to her later un-appointment.  The Party had asked its members which of two candidates should be leader, and the membership gave a clear answer; Truss, not Sunak.  The...

 I remember someone suggesting in 2010 that the right-wing bloggers would decline, as a political blog really needs a government that the blogger disagrees with in order to generate the material and the motivation to keep the flow of posts going.  I...