In Gremlins Two, the loveable creatures are electrocuted into putrified jelly. The film bears no report that eleven survived.
Most Conservative MPs are desparate to avoid one any time soon. It may not have occured to some that bringing down the Bill could bring about precisely the outcome they want to avoid.
It insists that there was no plan to move to by-election rules. “We’re not so stupid as to push a scheme that we know would be opposed by a large number of MPs.”
And Tomlinson, Minister since last Thursday for Illegal Migration, demonstrates fighting spirit by seeing off Cooper.
The Prime Minister is in full command of the facts, but has no idea how to raise morale among his despondent backbenchers.
The decision involves children, parents, schools and doctors, and has implications for rights, mental health, responsibilities and culture – as well as the management of a restive parliamentary party.
The A list and its successors haven’t kept a golden generation out of Parliament. Many of those who might have made it up aren’t putting themselves forward for selection in the first place.
There is no time for writing yet more reports about Child Sexual Exploitation: the Government wishes to show it is now going to act.
What does conservatism look like in a future where rising burdens on the State make low-tax politics impossible to deliver?
The new Home Secretary wants to uphold traditional British means of maintaining liberty and the rule of law.
Though it’s hard to see how he can find a seat before the next general election – given the hazardous nature of by-elections.
Zahawi must act to prevent “ideological race materials” being rolled out in schools by left-wing councils and others.
Almost sixteen years after he left office, the long shadow of Tony Blair still looms over British politics. It’s time to step out of it.