I'd say Fascism has three main characteristics - lack of class warfare, internal repression and external aggression. Franco's Spain (and Salazar's Portugal) had the first two, but not … (View Post)

Yes, I think that was Macron's mistake at the start of the campaign too, thinking that a psychopathic dictator and a flawed democracy both have points of view that should somehow be balanced. Fo… (View Post)

"Perhaps this is why voting intention polls are getting so little attention and why hardly anybody talks about “the polls”." Maybe people have finally twigged that VI polls are terrible pre… (View Post)

Also spending it incredibly inefficiently in many ways. NHS diversity officers that cost as much as three nurses. Would ANYBODY rather have the former than the latter? Staggering waste. That will alw… (View Post)

On topic, Rishi didn't so much rise to the top of politics as fluke up - he got there because Sajid clased with Cummings and Johnson needed another non-white, and then because Truss self-destruc… (View Post)