Less Germans fear Russia than Poles fear Russia because the Germans have got Poland between them and Russia.

Reforming the judicial system from the point of cutting the waiting time is not the best place to start.

Advocates of PR to stop the Right don't take into account the maths. PR would as likely, if not more likely produce, a Tory/Reform government as a Lab, LibDem, Green, Your Party, SNP, PC one. A run-off between the two first round leaders as in France, is more likely to keep the extreme right out.

I think you missed the last part of Johnson's quote about "Black lives matter" which went on "as long as they keep quiet and know their place".
PS I'm also on mhindley.substack.com

Esau sold his birthright for a "mess of pottage" A seasoned journo always quoted when adding "I know everyone in politics has his ( I may add her) price, but I'm always surprised how little they sell out for". A glance at either front bench, past & present would validate the quote.

It's the selection not the training that's opaque and certainly not transparent.

Worry also about the extra burden placed on magistrates, whose selection remains arcane and covered by the vague and dubious "volunteer application" process.

Before giving magistrates more power can we have an investigation into how they are appointed ? It seems to be a masonic process of nods, winks, whispers.

It was bad enough when Labour took its policies from focus groups, but now under Starmer Labour takes its policies from Farage.

The old Yates Wine Lodge, Blackpool, where they sold champagne on tap. Blackpool in its vibrant & garish heyday.

Seems to me that Starmer is the last one to have a strategy to distance himself, and his country, from Trump, everyone else is loosening the ties.

But for the 90/180 limit on Brits in the EU, the brain drain would be greater

The more the evidence piles up to prove Brexit is a disaster, the less reason for Starmer to cower before Rothermere, Murdoch and Farage. And yet he trembles...

This is real decline in standard, this little gag was always witty, these expletives are unnecessary and diminish the effect.

How about "retreads" ?