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Overshadowed by Costa in the Championship, certainly, but he ended up being a more consistent performer over a longer period of time, and arguably the better player overall in terms of value.

If the two parties together win 40-45% of the vote (totally possibly under the current polling) then that is absolutely a tantalising prospect for a merged party under FPTP. Johnson won massively in 2019 by sucking up the vast majority of the Brexit Party vote, and there are also plenty of...

If only Boris Johnson's long history of casual antisemitism hadn't been studiously ignored from 2016 to 2019, eh.

Idk, Mordaunt was mostly just loud and hectoring, and not exactly convincing or likeable. Also a politician who’s usually a better public speaker. Felt like the two of them just kind of cancelled each other out - Mordaunt making obviously bad points that nobody was buying, but Rayner wasn’t...

This seems to happen in every election - these multiparty debates end up significantly better than the leader head-to-heads, and the LDs/PC/SNP always look best. Honestly my main takeaway so far this time though is that Rayner has been surprisingly unimpressive, she’s usually good at this but...

Would dispute the placement of the SNP on that, for one thing...

Think it was inevitable really. Simply not worth the negative headlines for the sake of one seat, especially when by all accounts she wants to retire soon anyway. Bigger issue for Starmer is who keeps doing these nasty off-the-record factional briefings that keep undermining the whole "we're a...

Roughly half of British journalists went to private schools, and that also skews towards the top end (ie editors are more likely to have gone than reporters, partly due to in-clique selection but also because it's a sector that pays terribly and those without family wealth to fall back on often...

Before his behaviour came to light O'Mara's only notable contributions to British politics were a) taking Clegg's seat, and b) getting Parliament's dress code relaxed so that ties were no longer mandatory for men. He was a candidate selected without due diligence during a similar pre-snap...

In its defence, it's not so much odd as it is (arguably) over-enthusiastic. Pretty much every pollster is getting the same results, give or take, before accounting for don't knows, and then the differences are coming from how they're weighting them. Their pre-weighting result is 43-26, right in...

They are going to cling to this until their fingers are bloody and raw, but worth noting that this would match the Tories' worst-ever share of the vote. Since the 1830s.

Akehurst is one of the more influential behind-the-scenes figures of the Labour right, and incredibly factional. Would bomb anything for a vote, would cut off his own arms and legs to spite the left. And to be fair to him, starting a rumour that he's going to be parachuted into Diane Abbott's...

The rumour is that snivelling little gremlin Akehurst is being lined up for her seat, too.

Could it just be as simple as line go up? If you're trying to market an investment in a company to a buyer, you want to show consistent growth in revenue and profit. And I doubt that kinds of people they're trying to hawk their much-vaunted minority share of the club to are going to be any more...

I have long been frustrated by the description of 2019 as a "landslide victory" for this and other reasons. It was a fragile victory in a lot of ways, but most importantly "4/10 voters chose Party 1, 3/10 voters chose Party 2" is not an overwhelming difference in popular opinion. The way we tend...

This reeks of a company juicing revenue as hard as possible in the short-term. Why not when their main focus is on making the club look as attractive as possible to buyers? A few days ago Jenny Nicholson (a fairly big youtuber, for the offline folks) put out a comprehensive autopsy of the Star...

The man cannot stop fucking up basic shit. Put up an umbrella on a stand! Nobody will see it on the broadcast!

It's happening.

The Tories in Canada only recovered after their disintegration in 1993 by merging with the populist right party that had supplanted them. He might just get his wish, if not for a while or under the circumstances he'd prefer...

Relatability is always in the eye of the beholder, though. Could say a lot of the same stuff about Corbyn - mum a teacher, dad an engineer, also loves Arsenal, spends his free time reading or making jam, by all accounts actually interested in other people and easy to have a conversation with -...