Let’s get boring

This week: the Labour party manages to be both Charlie Brown and Lucy, the best take on London’s tube & rail map, and, somewhere under the Chilterns, I have a quasi-religious experience thanks to HS2.

“Why is the Labour Party tearing itself apart at the conference?” an offline friend texted me on Tuesday. It was surprisingly difficult to come up with an answer that didn’t amount to, “Because Labour party”. I think therefore I am; the Labour party is, therefore it feuds.

I’m not convinced that the moment when Angela Rayner described the government as “…