This is why I love PB. Thank you, Richard. I think the definition you have here is a legal definition rather than a dictionary definition. The latter should draw on the etymology -- reflecting on the… (View Post)
...and your definition wouldn't cover the case of Lee Rigby... ...but the hard cases make bad law (or less-than-perfect legal definitions, perhaps) (View Post)
Thank you; I overlooked Alan Brown who left Labour to sit as an Independent in 1961, before joining the Conservatives when they were in Government in 1962. (Technically, does a two-stage process coun… (View Post)
The last MP to defect to the party of Government was, I think, Grantham MP Quentin Davis in June 2007. But it seems you have to go back to 1972 to find the last time someone defected to the Conservat… (View Post)
I was an HS2 agnostic when the plans were first announced. I get a lot has changed since the original decision was made: costs have increased, the pandemic has added considerable uncertainty to passe… (View Post)