On topic. Just eyeballing the poll numbers, it's not obvious that the Sheffield rally (on 1st April) had much of an effect either way. If anything, with four small Conservative leads between 27 … (View Post)

Any gigantic bureaucracy like the NHS will inevitably be inflexible, unresponsive and inefficient, and put managers' interests above those of front line stuff (I worked in NHS management for a f… (View Post)

The only constitutional monarchy I can think of which ever became a dictatorship was Italy under Mussolini. And it was the King that eventually dismissed him. (View Post)

Since we are on Ireland today, I thought some quotations from the great Conservative (and Unionist) Prime Minister Lord Salisbury might be appropriate: "Possession of Ireland is our peculiar pun… (View Post)

Back on topic, here's an idea for Northern Ireland, if we must keep it. Instead of being integrated into the UK, it should be a Crown colony, like Bermuda is, or Hong Kong was in the old days, w… (View Post)