I dislike postal voting because I think people should be forced to vote in private unless there is good reason not to. (View Post)

Don't flatter yourself. I'm just not seeing the constant comic potential in Rishi's size. (View Post)

Meloni was an anti-mafia conservative catholic and protegee of Berlusconi so I never quite got the fear. From a distance she seems to have done okay controlling her dodgier coalition allies. (View Post)

Getting on the back of a moped to visit his mistress? (View Post)

Not entirely no. But one side was clearly far worse than the other as even Eric Hobsbawn(!!!) finally noted. And I suspect if the Soviet Union had not be so ghastly the Americans might not have been … (View Post)