Like a lot of things, the takeover of “the blob” wasn’t noticeable at first. Sure, you’d see the blob here and there, but you didn’t think much of it. At the time, you didn’t even know it had a name.

Conservatives need to stop blaming "the blob" – an imagined cabal of enemies embedded in British society – for failures of government, George Osborne has said. In a speech on Friday the former ...

Close your eyes and picture the world as you know it. You’ve probably crafted something like an image of a blue sphere that is sporadically coated in slabs of green land. Perhaps, for the young ...