The present accounting rate is wrong, and the Government should intervene if necessary to ensure that it is put right.
I believe that officers at all levels should be elected at a general meeting following as soon as is practical after a general election.
The balance of the argument is against one as matters stand. But May will have no alternative but to go to the country if Parliament frustrates Brexit or her negotiation.
Whether or not May wants an early election is beside the point: recent events illustrate why governments shouldn’t be imprisoned in office.
The decision of the EU to restrict Switzerland’s access to scientific funding after they voted to limit freedom of movement sets a worrying precedent.
It flows from the Crown-in-Parliament, so support for it is entirely compatible with advocating Parliamentary sovereignty.
The key point at stake is not what Parliament has a right to do, but what it is wise to do – in the wake of the most emphatic popular vote in modern history.
Plus, what kind of Brexit do you want? And how do you rate the performance of each member of the Cabinet so far?
Unintentionally, the socialists of this Belgian region have done us a favour by making the free trade championing UK look an increasingly attractive partner.
Plus: John Rees-Evans’s bizarrre views. May’s flourishing line in jokes. Trump’s chances of winning. And: let Article 50 be put to a vote in Parliament and let’s get on with it.
Plus, I interview Howard Dean, Hector Gomez and Steve Schmidt.
Call that white flight if you like. Call it “white avoidance” if you must. I prefer to call it civilised, bourgeois, suburban safety.
The problems that change throwns up for the two countries are formidable but not insoluble.
Like Putin, he rules as unconstitutional monarch. Unlike Putin, his state is a member of NATO.
And on Brexit, as one who campaigned for In, I say we should get on with it, and avoid the one outcome that is infinitely less preferable to Leave or Remain: limbo.