It baffles me that the Lib Dems (and the Greens) have held up so well in recent opinion polls. They used to have dropped like a stone six months after an election, when the political spotlight fell e… (View Post)

Sorry, it's all a bit too esoteric, mathematiocal and economics-based for me these days - I will wait for the next by election - or the Counties - before I make any more predictions. (View Post)

Here's a link to the notorious Funchal Airport Disaster of 1977. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TAP_Flight_425 (View Post)

A fascinating article from Mr Herdson! Prof. Joanne Freeman of Yale University has written extensively on the overt role of violence in American politics, and I think her views fall full square in li… (View Post)

As an aside on MoonRabbit's thought-provoking piece, I think it's probably time that all political parties realised that there is one inescapable fact about the modern world - it's com… (View Post)