Still is afaia. 7th-gen O’Whatevers in Boston and Chicago see it as a way to assert their tenuous ethnic identity, despite the fact that modern Ireland would be alien to them. : (View Post)

In our gaff we always call bin liners ‘Osamas’. (View Post)

They’re a key *donor* demographic to win back. I suspect the once-groaning Tory campaign war chest is looking a little humbler these days. (View Post)

In part I think a bit of this is Johnson legacy, where we’ve become used to government-by-optics; really most everything he did was opportunistic. Politically, he was an empty vessel and the key ques… (View Post)

Rory Stewart - decent bloke, good writer, crap politician. (View Post)