That - wouldn't be good news. Rubbish though SKS is, it's not obvious there's anyone better - and it IS obvious that there are a lot of people worse. (View Post)

To be fair to Pie, while he is probably on the left, he mocked twattery wherever he saw it - he was never that tribal. He's certainly no Centrist Dad. (View Post)

My earliest political memory is of Michael Foot's wife being knocked down by a low-hanging tree on the top of an open-topped bus in, let's say, Ipswich. Actually I was vaguely aware of Marg… (View Post)

If I have one criticism of the above post, it is that it appears to be laid out as - and therefore I am trying to read it as - a poem, and I can't make it scan. I'm sure its unintentional. … (View Post)

Yes - I remember my undergraduate British politics course (taught by David Marquand) demonstrating this point. Thr Falklands brought a temporary spike in Con VI, but it reverted to the trend line com… (View Post)