Four other reasons to think that Sunak is rubbish: - his department has raised taxes mainly to subsidise the elderly affluent at the expense of the working population, against an explicit manifesto p… (View Post)

George HW Bush was the best foreign policy President in my life so far. He was right about so much, particularly: - the end of the Cold War - German reunification where even Mrs Thatcher got it wrong… (View Post)

Or Bismarck, with his Russlandspolitik. Germany has always had an obsession with Russia - Prussia's kings were said to fear it more than God. And the Social Democrats have a fondness for shady d… (View Post)

Causes of recent PMs' downfall: Callaghan - Winter of Discontent Mrs Thatcher - Europe/Poll Tax/General staleness Major - Europe/lots of other stuff Blair - Middle East Brown - Economy/leadershi… (View Post)

Yes and so would the French and the precedent is so blindingly obvious even Macron wouldn't be able to miss it. Also the Americans quite like a friendly face on that body. (View Post)