The difference between Trump and a first order despot seems to be that Trump is totally f*cking inept. There's no doubting his evil intent and total lack of conscience, but fortunately he is piss-poo… (View Post)

Michael Prescott at the Select Committee: It's further put to him [Prescott] Kamala Harris wasn't found to have played an active role in the 6 January Capitol riots, so what would an equivalent progr… (View Post)

Either that or Witkoff doesn't see the murdering etc. as that much as an issue compared with the things Putin is against... liberal society, democracy, freedom of choice, that sort of thing. (View Post)

I'm wondering whether it was really that much of a disaster anyway. Embarrassing maybe, but I can't remember it making much difference to our daily lives. The abiding memory of the 70s for me was the… (View Post)

You keep suggesting we are going to be cap in hand to the IMF but wasn't that supposed to happen in the first 6 months of a Labour government? Perhaps a small punt on whether the UK has to seek help … (View Post)