Mrs Thatcher thought reuniting the two Germanys would be a catastrophe. She would have been happy for East Germany to have joined the EC and let time be the leveller. She fell out with Helmut Kohl ov… (View Post)

Any incoming UK government will have to do the same. The lesson of Sue Gray is horrific. And Rachel Reeves's husband is head of DEFRA. How could anyone trust him even if he wasn't married to the wors… (View Post)

"Research has shown that the United Kingdom spends more of its time in making partisan unfavourable comparisons between itself and other selectively chosen comparator countries than any other co… (View Post)

You have to remember if WHH was not much travelled before his election, and relatively he wasn't then he wouldn't have picked up the low level infections years before that might have given him some i… (View Post)

I've met Thatcher, Major, Cameron, and Boris. Also met Blunkett and Hague and Dennis Thatcher - he was most entertaining and I was very drunk. (View Post)