Trump has no soft power, he is generally held in contempt across the democratic world, and not just the democratic world. The erosion of US convening power under Trump was quite marked in his first a… (View Post)

Except Vance himself started that "rumour". (View Post)

Agreed. The constitutional constraints will be set aside and the future of American democracy is bleak indeed. Even bleaker is that this is what the American people actually want. The question now is… (View Post)

26 new Tory MPs elected on July 4th, though quite a few were retreads of various kinds. The Parliamentary Party is not exactly overburdened with fresh talents. Meanwhile checking out the resumes of t… (View Post)

The Lib Dem majorities are more solid than quite a considerable number of Tory ones. For example, they have more majorities over 10,000 than the Conservatives do. (View Post)