The predictor that matters is not how many seats a party got at the previous election where the correlation is low or actually negative, but the opinion polls three months or less before polling day,… (View Post)

The only problem with using the names of our glorious victories against the French on the Overground is the obvious temptation to build several dozen more lines to use them all. There were a couple o… (View Post)

That's completely wrong. The slow growth long predated our leaving the EU; many other European countries are experiencing chronically slow growth and in fact we are doing better than some of them; an… (View Post)

But ... but ... he won the Nobel Peace Prize for not being George W Bush. And he could bullshit endlessly on TV, looking like he meant it, at least when his teleprompter was working. Surely that make… (View Post)

Yes, the Krauts have been generous enough, but they have been so in a grudging way. Before every big gift there have been long and angsty and very German debates. Whereas we've taken the opposite app… (View Post)