There is no British cultural event that bears reasonable comparison to the annual Super Bowl halftime performance. No Glastonbury headline slot, Last Night of the Proms or Jools Holland Hootenanny can ...
In 2021, the British government promised to “explore options for a wider civilian reserve” who could be activated in a crisis. The exploration happened (I was part of it), but the reserve did not.
If Keir Starmer had someone like Gordon Brown or Boris Johnson as chancellor or foreign secretary, I suspect a Labour leadership election would now be underway. But he doesn’t, and the absence of an ...