As an aside, I'm very glad that the EU has no truck whatsoever with the evils of flag nationalism. UvdL must just have been touring a flag factory that day, or something. (View Post)

The thinking seems to have been: 'OK, we suck at actually keeping major members inside the bloc, so let's raise the morale of the rest by showing them how awesome we are at crisis managemen… (View Post)

They were so afraid of the tragedy of the commons that they ran headlong into the tragedy of the communes... (View Post)

Veni, vidi, pupugi! (I came, I saw, I jabbed!) Some wags will no doubt wish to rearrange the order of the words. (View Post)

Woke reparations are a '20% of the vote' strategy - it would, in your lingo, create an awful lot of Reluctant (TINA) Tories where none existed before. (View Post)