Well, you can work out quite a lot from OECD, IMF and World Bank numbers and they are pretty consistent. So, while you might not like the numbers, the reality is that Scotland would need to go throug… (View Post)

Perhaps the key reason that the Tories are hanging back on putting the silver bullet into the festering zombie corpse of Johnson as PM is that this relatively trivial crisis is about to be followed b… (View Post)

Which is why we need to reform our electoral system so that a minority party can no longer hold majority power for so long. (View Post)

Johnson is taking an unconscionable time to die. However once gone, one wonders what percentage of the cabinet will be gone too... JRM, Dorries, Patel, Jack most likely to be put out of our misery, n… (View Post)

Which is why the West is talking about the kind of sanctions that would have a similar effect on the already fairly creaky Russian economy. Russia is already waging war, and not just against Ukraine,… (View Post)