The upside of a new cross-party appointments process would be distance from the government of the day. The downside is the danger of boiling it down to a lowest common denominator.
If politicians come to believe that the civil service is preoccupied with speaking truth to power at the expense of doing its job, Francis Maude-type solutions will be imposed, regardless of which party is in power.
Ministers shouldn’t engage in the underhanded tactics used by the Left, and should instead wield its popular mandate for legislative reform before they lose their chance.
He accuses Tories of being ‘snowflake MPs waging war on free speech’; Sunak says he is indulging in “the usual political opportunism”.
Having a national broadcaster that integrates the country is increasingly difficult if that country is far more divided along lines of faith, race, politics, values, and half a dozen other qualities than it was a century ago.
It’s single mothers like mine that are hardest hit by non-payment of the licence fee. If you ask me, that’s too high a price to pCome Dancing on free-to-view telly.
The abuse became so bad that I felt the need to stop giving media interviews, writing articles and to remove myself from the public arena.
Lavish campaign spending does not guarantee electoral success. If it did, Brexit wouldn’t be happening. And Theresa May would now have a majority.
Fairly or unfairly, the pro-EU cause is already associated with elites. The arrival of the Withdrawal Bill in the Upper House will do nothing to diminish that impression.
And, separately, I interview a Prime Minister who doesn’t seem at all brow-beaten or lacking in authority, but instead appears to have recovered her MoJo.
The abuse became so bad that I felt the need to stop giving media interviews, writing articles and to remove myself from the public arena.