Another bizarre rule - why is it worse to murder someone in a wood than on a high street? (View Post)

The way to stop discriminating is to stop discriminating, not to discrimininate in a different way. And there's no evidence I've ever seen that stiffer sentences for these crimes reduce off… (View Post)

I agree. Same reason I am opposed to extra sentences for hate crimes. I don't care if somebody was murdered by a neo-Nazi thug or a ghetto thug trying to steal his wallet. The same dead body, th… (View Post)

A minority government would most likely be a poisoned chalice for Starmer. So would one with even a small majority. Our system hates governments without working majorities. We've had five such g… (View Post)

Unfortunately, being weak pushovers in Brussels is what the Foreign Office specialised in, at least in my (limited but formative) experience of dealing with them. It was also Theresa May's disas… (View Post)