I can see John Prescott, John McDonnell or Joe Stalin leading those mobs at their respective schools (assuming Prescott wasn't playing truant of course). Oddly I can't see Mrs Thatcher, Nigel Lawson … (View Post)

I was often being criticised for being such at school (and similar, like "know-it-all", and "too clever for own good") and oddly I took it as a compliment. Certainly it didn't det… (View Post)

If not the lady herself, obviously a graduate of the Diane Abbott School of Mathematical Economics. (View Post)

She's good at a small part of politics - she understands the internal dynamics and neuroses of the Labour Party. Like Prescott under Blair. But also like Prescott under Blair, she's utterly crap at a… (View Post)

We might have been like Switzerland and not joined the EU in the first place, because it is incompatible with Swiss direct democracy. In fact, a main difficulty with direct democracy is that it's vir… (View Post)