Eh? I find the idea that the BBC are backing Reform astonishing. Watching the BBC announce the results of the Brexit referendum was like watching them announce the death of the Queen. Even the covera… (View Post)

A pedant notes: that's a justification put forward for keeping the current system, rather than what it was designed to do. Inasmuch as it was designed at all, it was for something 200-odd years … (View Post)

FWIW, the commentators on the Sussex-Surrey match are talking about swinging for the fences. It wasn't a phrase I'd heard before today that I'd noticed - suddenly it's everywhere. (View Post)

More to the point, she doesn't really unite the right. Too woke. (View Post)

For sponsorships, she has the twin advantages of being recognisable (now the Williamses have gone, I don't think there's another female tennis player I'd recognise) and easy on the eye… (View Post)