Ollie Davies

Thanks to Angela Rayner, zero hours contracts will be banned, no-one will be subject to fire at will, no-one will be able to be fired and rehired, and no-one will lose their private rented home just cos their landlord wants them out. That's quite some legacy. Thank you Angela.

Two things can be true at once. Rayner was foolish in her conduct and right to resign. It’s also true she was always despised by much of the right wing press because she was a working class powerful woman. She was therefore threatening to them, because she authentically spoke for the same people they (erroneously) claim to speak for and could not be dismissed as a liberal elite- their favoured tactic with anyone they don’t like. She’s therefore been the subject to endless snobbery and classism and extra scrutiny from day 1- another reason she was foolish not to be meticulous.

Cheap, cheap, cheap from Rory Stewart. A few years ago he seemed to be a rare Burkean/Neuhaus type conservative who understood the importance of intimate, people-sized institutions but now trashes a VP and Christian who still believes in what is the only sustainable and human alternative to a politics of rampant individualism. Rory is definitely a clever man but where’s the consistency? What’s his core? I have no idea who he is anymore :(

Trump wins the White House. Again. The Democrats blew it. Again. A depressing yet predictable result.

What fresh hell is this?