Well, yes, but [testing a thought out] marriage is to some extent religious. I suspect very very few people who oppose gay marriage (and ISTR this was the majority of the population right up until th… (View Post)

Anti-gay prejudice? Do you have a source for that? I think this might be one of these J.K.Rowling-type 'facts' which is similarly difficult to substantiate but nevertheless acquires momentum (View Post)

I wouldn’t crow about the demise of the SNP too soon. Drakeford has been awful for years without seeming to endanger the position of Welsh Labour. (View Post)

Presumably it is just sales of NEW petrol and diesel cars? i.e. the second hand market will continue for some time after? And as the second hand market accounts for, what, 90% of car sales, a target … (View Post)

I think I do have a religious type faith in democracy. Democracy doesn't deliver the right result quickly. But autocracies tend not to deliver the right result at all. I have a high degree of fa… (View Post)