How do you find the right balance between being extrovert/schmoozing and being paranoid and introvert?

And, as ever, you gotta hand it to Mandelson. He got the Millennium Dome built. That's a legacy. What have I accomplished? Nothing.

The McSweeney people* have always had this utterly mad blindspot around Ange, they all thought that her having to resign was somehow a good thing for them when it *very obviously* was going to make their position worse.

And people who’ve run off to Dubai for tax avoidance (or evasion)?

maybe this is a bit galaxy brain, but they should merge IT and NICs into a single new tax called "new national insurance", thereby saying they abolished income tax

Also my understanding of the phrase “he thinks decisions are made in meetings”.

Enemy Making A Mistake? Don't! Interrupt.

They will need that anyway to get it past local planning permission. I’m genuinely looking forward to the moment when the council turns down the planning application on the grounds that it would be far too disruptive to traffic. Parliament denied by the true power in the land: local councils.