And, more generally, because he was a man who got just about everything wrong. I well remember his spiteful, pathetic and completely futile sniping against his successor during her Prime Ministership. (View Post)

To state the obvious, it has clearly been a very bad night for the Conservatives, though given the collapse in living standards over the last year, the Truss premiership, Sunak's lack of charism… (View Post)

British, maybe. Not Northern Irish. The nature of fraud is that it's hidden. So absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. I'm fairly indifferent to whether we require ID to vote or no… (View Post)

Would annoy the Chinese government far more if it showed Tibet and Xinjiang independent. (View Post)

Why should it? It is completely wrong to shaft people financially while they are fighting for freedom - ours as well as theirs. And this is one type of aid which is pretty unlikely to be lost in corr… (View Post)