I'm one of the 4%. I've met several MPs. I think the public far too cynical in this respect. (View Post)

It's hard to picture the Labour voter who is going to abandon them because they have only now come to the conclusion that Peter Mandelson is a shifty knave. (View Post)

Agreed: I'd also add: 1) Some studies have suggested that the east of Great Britain has been Germanic in language and genetics for rather longer than that even. 2) While pre-Viking Anglo-Saxons … (View Post)

I had thought of doing a Monte Carlo @Flatlander. That's what I did with the Monty Hall problem. The problem though is I don't think we all agree what the coding would be! We all agree, I t… (View Post)

My understanding is also that the wealth of the Qatari gasfields gets directed to some incredibly hardline anti-western Islamic groups in Europe. Although it apparently also goes to fund the growth o… (View Post)