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I don’t have much to say on the subject. I’ve felt since result night that we were going to end up with Cameron and Co. taking over at some point, and the only thing that really surprises me is how the Lib Dems let themselves be steamrollered by the promises of seats at the top [...]

We were watching the toe-curlingly bad British Olympc Party thing on the BBC yesterday afternoon. At the VISA sponsored shenanigans in London. we saw the stars of the Queen Musical ‘We Will Rock You’ and the BBC Saturday night talent show ‘Last Choir Standing’.
Inspiring.
Meantime, in Beijing, we get Boris twittering on about Ping Pong in [...]

I listened to the George Osborne speech on my lunch break today, and when he announced that he would raise the inheritance tax threshold to ONE MILLION POUNDS, I was struck by how much it sounded like Dr Evil from that first Austin Powers film, and how that would make for a fine piece of [...]