I think the precedents of Gordon Brown and John Major are persuasive - if the polls don't turn, he'll hang on as long as he can. There's no persuasive evidence that any month is better… (View Post)

... though: - the five million or so who died in his wars somehow never got to see the great leap forward in social progress - he was one of very few leaders in modern history to reintroduce slavery … (View Post)

The press love anything that sells papers in the silly season, they love sex scandals at any time, they love moralising about sex scandals and they love talking about themselves. Of course they would… (View Post)

I don't see why we need a BBC at all. There's nothing it provides that the private sector doesn't, usually rather better. If the BBC didn't exist, there's no way we'd in… (View Post)

Off topic, I hear that China has mysteriously failed to publish statistics for the number of cremations in Q4 2022, when the Zero COVID policy embarassingly collapsed. Clearly the CCP believes that s… (View Post)