If there aren't many squaddies helping out in Scotland it's because Nippy and Calamity Jeane neglected to make a request. A point that was raised by Jamie Stone in the Commons a few days ago. The rol… (View Post)

My experience of genuinely working class people (ie, my parents) was that they were very keen to get on, and become "middle class" as soon as possible. (View Post)

Agree. Like Reagan, he's likeable, with a nice line in self-deprecation. And pretty smart, and motivated, judging by his career. (View Post)

Why do you say Ford was "also a disaster"? He lost only very narrowly to Carter, despite inheriting the crashed Nixon presidency, and is generally held to have acted responsibly while in of… (View Post)

For me one of the lessons is the importance of political party governance and ensuring that unfit candidates are not selected. The tragedy is that Trump managed to gate-crash the Republican Party and… (View Post)