The radio this morning was full of the most bizarre proposal. Amid all the usual gossip about which of the Tory tribe would take up the mantle of Country Breaker In Chief there was a suggestion it could be one that nobody sane would ever imagine. One demonstrably the least appropriate for high office. One …
Monthly archives: October 2022
Goodbye No.56, What Was Your Name Again?
Ah yes, Trussed. Today the 56th and all-time shortest serving UK Prime Minister gave up the ghost of office. Although in the job 44 days, as The Economist pointed out – when you subtract the ten days of country-on-hold for national mourning she was only in power for 7 before her administration imploded. The shelf-life …
Truss Approval
It might seem odd, but in a way I have to commend Liz Truss’s speed and efficiency. We’ve had three years of Boris Johnson drunken behind the wheel, careening about the road, mounting the kerb and central reservations in turn. A swig of the bottle, a laugh and a swerve; little dents and lost wing …