My latest: 2024's political winners

Writing number two made me ill.

For many politicians and political parties, 2024 was a horrible, awful, nasty, no-good year.

Incumbent politicians and political parties, that is. The year 2024 was the worst year ever - ever - for incumbents, the political scientists tell us. Either they all lost ground, or they plain old lost. It was nasty, brutish and (sometimes) short-sighted.

The rea…