The other day, in the Times, a below-the-line commentator referred to Chris Mason as the Uriah Heep of British political correspondents. That image is going to stick with me...... (View Post)

Yes. This sort of activity is conceptually the same as poisoning wells, salting fields and generally fouling up public infrastructure, and should be dealt with accordingly. It's an attack on the… (View Post)

Agree wholeheartedly. English (indeed, British) evangelicalism tends to have quite an affinity with left-leaning political parties and philosophies - not exclusively, and not uncritically, but rememb… (View Post)

I am rather more interested in other types of defection - SLAB to SNP, Welsh Lab to Plaid, Wet Tories to the Lib Dems, a revised form of Change UK etc. There are lots of possible permutaions if and w… (View Post)

I think one of the main problems is bad manners - her book is clearly riffing on Tom Holland's well-regarded "Dominion". (Dominion - Domination - geddit??) However, she doesn't re… (View Post)