The idea that people working from home will be as productive as folk working alongside colleagues (and managers) is obviously laughable - unless they are a novelist or poet. Whether the politics of p… (View Post)

Sigh. The reason for SNP preponderance is the split unionist vote. Even in the council elections just gone, more people voted for "unionist" parties. There is majority opposition to another… (View Post)

Very difficult to see how Labour don't select a woman (however defined) next time. And it's not as though they don't have some high profile women at the top of the party. Burnham would have zero chan… (View Post)

Not really. According to this article the SNP could, judging by opinion polling, have won a plurality of MPs in Scotland as far back as the late 70s. Certainly Scottish Labour have been worried about… (View Post)

The monarchy is not going anywhere, and neither are Scotland or Northern Ireland. This talk about it, here and elsewhere, is just displacement activity. Saw my first swifts of the year yesterday. Rea… (View Post)