Quite probably so. I blame an inadequate UK history curriculum! My own History O Level in the Eighties was "Economic and Social History" covering 1700-1914, particularly the Industrial Revo… (View Post)

Very interesting analysis. I am not convinced by Hindu voters being Conservative though. I think that was largely a Sunak effect which is now extinct. Leicester East as a safe Tory seat stretches the… (View Post)

It's just a demonstration of how the UK right are in thrall to MAGA, repeating all their tropes no matter how irrelevant to a UK context. How anyone looks at America and thinks we should copy th… (View Post)

I found BLM an unwelcome US import, as the issues facing Black Britons are really quite different to those of the USA. I note though that BLM became a worldwide cause celebre, against perceptions of … (View Post)

Surely the opposite? After she stopped working there it all went Pete Tong. (View Post)