The current historical context is a retreat from globalisation and Putin has been one of the factors in this. However he has created extraordinary fragility in the Russian state. "Call no man ha… (View Post)

His track record is... um... how to put this?questionable. (View Post)

I have never understood this view. No ones says they come from Wolverhampton South West or Liverpool Scotland Road, they say they are from Wolverhampton or from Liverpool. The boundaries are fiddly a… (View Post)

They don't take their seats. The don't recognise that the House of Commons has jurisdiction over Northern Ireland anyway. (View Post)

Yes. The problem is that the headbangers are by far the majority of the Parliamantary party and, it appears, of the elderly membership too. The purges of people like Osborne and Stewart denuded the p… (View Post)