None, I just wanted to say how much I'm enjoying Keir's new nickname. He can never ever let himself be photographed drinking one now, can he? (View Post)

How many seats would a party based solely on Thatcherite economics - shorn of the cultural conservatism of which the monarchy is the linchpin - actually win these days? How many would Thatcher hersel… (View Post)

Or perhaps 'how to prove a person claiming that holding the wrong political opinions gets you persecuted right by, er, persecuting her for holding the wrong political opinions'. Her analogy is hyperb… (View Post)

To paraphrase John O'Farrell, elections are a sacred democratic ritual, the result of generations of blood and struggle, in which the voice of the common man is heard and counted ... then the Tories … (View Post)

OK, to be precise: high rates of disease usually cause governments to mandate formal lockdowns; if governments don't, then the general public implements a de facto lockdown because most of them don't… (View Post)