The real hope is that Putin’s regime collapses just as fast. Collapses when they come tend to be rapid, and few people see them coming, as we learned in Europe in 1989 and in Russia not that long the… (View Post)

Bloody Tory canvasser been round again? (View Post)

Indeed. Since the defeat of communism and hence the loss of any alternative economic model to rival the oligarchic-capitalism the world now enjoys, it is pretty clear that the benefits of economic gr… (View Post)

You do know that - bizarrely, and dysfunctionally - average disposable income for a British economically inactive pensioner is now higher than for the average person in full-time employment. This rea… (View Post)

That is likely to be a very perceptive comment. For generations - indeed centuries - the Conservatives were attractive to those who ‘had’, and who wanted to protect what they had from sudden or radic… (View Post)