Every seat under FPTP is its own election and most of these seats were Lab/Con marginals in 2024. So this analysis requires a lot of 2024 Con support to switch to Reform in those seats next time and … (View Post)

Wemyss Bay is the UK's best railway terminus. Discussion closed. (View Post)

Yes. The same point as I was making. Also celibacy of the priesthood is primarily an administrative measure where doctrinal considerations serve to justify that decision. (View Post)

Makes a lot of sense to me. Reform can only knock out the Tories in Lab/Con marginals (which is most of the seats in play) if the Tories drop out - and they have no reason to do so. I am v sceptical … (View Post)

The Picts very definitely were Christian until they were wiped out around 840. Curiously the graphic design in that quintessentially Irish work the Book of Kells is mostly Pictish. Which raises inter… (View Post)