The article is rubbish. Truss's premiership wasn't the shortest in history - not even close. The 18th century Long Administration, under the Earl of Bath in 1746, lasted only 48 hours, not … (View Post)

I'm not sure many people ever had any enthusiasm for Starmer to begin with - grudging acceptance combined with fury at the previous government more like. The latter should die away at some point… (View Post)

... like those brutally downtrodden and oppressed colonies, Canada and Australia ... (View Post)

Because violence in general, and political violence in particular, are much more socially acceptable in America than here. Americans are brought up on garbage like Thomas Jefferson's "a lit… (View Post)

But the economics is much less rosy than it was for much of Labour's term in office (until the Brown Bust in 2007-8 basically) so they have much less room to spray money at their public sector f… (View Post)