Some promises age considerably worse than others once the actual delivery numbers arrive Dear diary, I spent today comparing three specific green policy promises made over recent years against what has actually been delivered so far, and the gap between promise and delivery is, I think, considerably more substantial than…

Constituency newsletters apparently do not always receive the same scrutiny as bigger speeches Dear diary, a backbench Labour MP’s constituency newsletter landed in my inbox today containing a genuinely remarkable factual error about a local infrastructure statistic, the kind of mistake that suggests nobody on staff actually checked the number…

Some interviews reward considerably closer counting than most viewers bother to do Dear diary, I sat through a genuinely lengthy select committee session today and kept a running count, purely for my own satisfaction, of how many times the minister under questioning avoided giving a direct answer to a fairly…

Some policy reversals happen quietly enough that most residents never actually notice Dear diary, a local Green led council quietly reversed a fairly high profile ban it had announced with considerable fanfare only three weeks earlier, a reversal that received noticeably less press attention than the original announcement had, exactly…