If it is in part judges taking a more expansive interpretation of their rights and responsibilities, that itself is downstream of politicians legislating in such a way as gives them more freedom to do so.
The President’s vision seems to be of an empire without the tedious long-term responsibilities that attend having one, including responsibilities to allies and collaborators.
Not only does it lean even further into the natural advantages as prospective candidates enjoyed by councillors, but it will in general select for MPs who conduct themselves like councillors regardless.
Kemi Badenoch should take care to emphasise the latter as well as the former, so as to reassure environmentally-minded Conservatives that this is about better policy, not a dirtier planet.
The whole point of the Convention is that it elevates certain rights above the political realm. There is an inherent tension between such an arrangement and democracy.
If nothing else, there may yet at some point be another Tory chancellor, and if past performance is any guide their budgets are going to leak.
Unless both parties are really ready to make such a deal work, then the worst outcome for the Right could actually be one where they could form a government after the next election.
Government attempts to set prices and insulate favoured groups from economic reality, which makes economic reality worse, which leads to more attempts to fix prices and protect a wider range of favoured groups.
Rachel Reeves is cannibalising the economy’s healthy tissue in order to avoid confronting Labour backbenchers with unpleasant choices. So it goes.
On both the domestic and foreign policy fronts, ministers must grapple with the fact that the future into which difficult decisions were shunted has finally arrived.
The most important thing for the Justice Secretary was not the Commons, or the Speaker, or any other formal part of the institution – it was the lenses, and the audience waiting behind them. The necessity of a statement came second to the optics of giving it.
This is simply the news environment which the Party has now to navigate: one with far more players than is historically normal, and where a piece doesn’t feel incomplete if it hasn’t checked in with the Tories.
Rachel Reeves is scrambling around for higher taxes that will do nothing to change Britain’s long-term economic trajectory.
The big question for the leader and her supporters is why she inherited a party polling at 25 per cent and has “staunched the bleeding” at 18 per cent.
The proper place of polling is marketing, yet too often politicians defer to the public on granular policy questions.