I can't believe some PBers were unfamiliar with the ‘perverted science’ description of fascism when Winston Churchill used it in one of the most famous speeches in British and indeed world history. W… (View Post)

One thing people forget is for a long time it looked as if the Soviets were winning the Cold War. Moscow and Leningrad (St Petersburg) were as prosperous as any Western city (and everywhere else was … (View Post)

OT Michael Portillo has not one but two programmes about trains on BBC2 tonight. A repeat at 6.30 and a new series at 8pm. Railway enthusiast Michael Portillo follows the route of the pioneering Stoc… (View Post)

No call to reduce the generosity of NHS pensions? (View Post)

Lammy is a Harvard-educated lawyer who practised law in America. He should have been left at the Foreign Office given the importance and fragility of our trans-Atlantic relationships. Although at fir… (View Post)