Because, like the NYT, they equate it - wrongly in my view - with Trump, and think that to discredit one is to hurt the other by implication. In my experience, Americans usually comment on foreign af… (View Post)

Decrminalisation is a fudge with the problems of both criminalising and legisalising, and the benefits of neither. You still hand the trade to gangs and increase use, but you can't get the tax r… (View Post)

Re the Curtice article: I am more and more convinced that Labour is suffering from the same identity crisis that has hit centre-left parties all over the democratic world since the deindustrialisatio… (View Post)

Starmer is taking full responsibility - by sacking everyone else. (View Post)

The history of New Labour was them being too clever by half, and it backfiring badly: - Scottish devolution - dodgy dossiers - financial regulation - mass immigration to "rub the right's no… (View Post)