That's why Reagan was pretty successful. He knew instinctively what course to set and had able people to do the grunt work. A sunny optimistic personality helped. Biden not unlike him. (View Post)

Tens of thousands of people in this country of ours have calmly read accounts of these kind of things. And then gone on to attend a demo condemning Israel. Quite a thing. (View Post)

Last thing Francois Mitterand ever did. The ortolan, that is. Not Catania. (View Post)

Douglas Alexander is standing again, after a period out of parliament. He's a former cabinet minister, under Gordon Brown. Imagine he may end up in Starmer's cabinet. (View Post)

The quality of new housing is often dreadful. It's because the market isn't functioning and the developers know they can sell anything no matter how bad. The only real answer, short of massively incr… (View Post)