[Tubby Isaacs]

I don’t know how you pivot away from this US tech. I don’t see this as being an overly Atlanticist thing. While lots of the “sclerotic EU” stuff is merely demographics, there seems to have been a long term failure on tech. I expect Mario Draghi has some ideas.

With tech, it’s basically what’s called “Wimbledonisation”. The UK can do well out of being the host (of the tennis tournament, or tech investment) but the top players are foreign.

It’s a useful term, first coined of the City of London.

[Youngian]

Steve Richards on the digital ID U-turn as an example of what's going wrong with this government. It doesn't bother arguing the advantages of policies which are then dropped after they are announced.
The country needs serious government after Johnson and Truss's tomfoolery. But I'm getting the feeling if you nominated Keir to be Santa at a kid's Christmas party he'd come in a Grim Reaper costume by mistake.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

I'm getting tired of the unremitting negativity about Starmer and the Labour government.

[Youngian]

So am I as its fixable self inflicted weaknesses that are dragging the government's popularity down. The list of positive policy initiatives introduced in 18 months already outstrip five years of the previous lot. But no one knows about them, Labour can't spend the next three years like Corbyn's supporters blaming the meeja.