If by more cowardly than Truss, you judge that she may think twice before blowing up the economy, then maybe that's not such a bad thing? (View Post)

At this rate the UK will soon end up as a liberal outlier on asylum/migration. Maybe we'll join the Italians and end up with detention centres in sunny Albania? https://www.theguardian.com/comme… (View Post)

From what I've read the US has made it clear to VVP what the consequences would be of using nukes. The Americans could do an awful lot to vulnerable Russian infrastructure by purely conventional… (View Post)

Salmond was like Stage One of the independence rocket. He blasted them up out of the UKs atmosphere (or so it seemed). A massive achievement. Problem was Stage Two failed to ignite (la Sturgeon) and … (View Post)

My recollection of those days was settling down to watch Thunderbirds, looked forward to all week, and shortly after it started there being a power-cut and a blank screen. Trauma off the scale. Must … (View Post)