OK, I think we’re all agreed that this has gone beyond mere inconvenient summer weather. England has a new lake district, in what used to be the Cotswolds. Hull was reclaimed by the North Sea weeks ago, Oxford is the new Venice, Tewkesbury is an island, and it is surely only a matter of time [...]

It occurred to me this morning, as I listened to Alastair Campbell on Radio 4’s Today Programme, once more insisting with confidence and authority that black was white, that we have already entered a new era of British politics. One where we’re wise to spin, Campbell is irrelevant, and we want to be treated like [...]

The allocation of jobs in the new, surrealist Brown era has been truly fascinating.