Simon Hart makes the same point in his published diary of his time as Tory Chief Whip - with some pointed comments about some of his colleagues, Suella particularly, which deserve to be better known.… (View Post)

The party had its name before Hitler joined, took it over, and shaped it to his purposes, I believe? During the early days, it did have a strong proto-socialist wing, aimed at capturing the working c… (View Post)

Michael Jackson is a brave choice, nowadays (View Post)

In a sense, it's an example of spin before Blair came along and perfected the art. That people, both at the time and in retrospect, think that Thatcherism was about deregulation and the 'sm… (View Post)

It's partly true. Thatcher did, as you say, continue to act as PM in charge of a cabinet government - the real centralisation of power from cabinet to PM happened under Blair. But she was respon… (View Post)