The Rivals Portillo vs Brown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuwPAAXiXP0 BBC/Michael Cockerell documentary from 2001 that has just popped up on YouTube. Which reminds me, I think MP has some new trai… (View Post)

Like Ronald Reagan wasn't (see, we are on-topic) or more recently Joe Biden. To be cynical it might come down to whether JD Vance wants it more than Marco Rubio. (View Post)

What was your favourite part? Ending the cold war? Surely not delaying the release of the Iran hostages so Carter did not benefit, the Iran-Contra scandal, tripling US debt to $3 trillion? (View Post)

George Osborne has just popped up courtesy of the YouTube algorithm. Here is a minute of the then Chancellor looking mesmerised by the Prime Minister's oratory:- Is George Osborne Okay? Have you… (View Post)

What this war and Starmer's response have highlighted, to the genuine surprise of many pundits, is the pathetic state of our armed forces after decades of Tory defence cuts. (View Post)