Chess is an obvious target. White always moves first, black second. (View Post)

The Scottish unionists and the English Labour party both suffer from the same problem: a split base. Starmer can't expand his appeal to try to win back Labour's lost supporters in the red wall towns … (View Post)

Expect a heavy dollop of fudge over that issue. If he moves decisively towards the Leaver vote on that one then he's explicitly rejecting both open door immigration and any meaningful reintegration w… (View Post)

It might take a very long time for them to come back - product of torching the red wall vote and the loss of Scotland. The huge problem we now have in England is that Labour's surviving core vote - t… (View Post)

On the subject of trying to get back to normal: The UK has "gone from being cavalier to crippling caution" in its approach to Covid, a former head of drug maker GlaxoSmithKline has said. Si… (View Post)