A female rape victim is uniquely distrusted as a victim of crime. I don't think the word of a victim is so readily discarded in the case of other crimes. (View Post)

One of the problems for Polanski is that it (or the antisemitism issue) will be the first question every journalist wants to ask him. So he will struggle to communicate any other message. It then doe… (View Post)

I could imagine plenty of Labour MPs looking at Rayner, then Streeting, and then cornering Miliband to try and twist his arm into taking on the job. (View Post)

I can't think of many countries that are happy with the status quo, so it is baffling that there hasn't been a multilateral move to do something about this. (View Post)

Lots of ideas are bandied around on here, but the main thing is that they have to convince the voters that it's necessary. The pattern in recent budget speeches is to reel off a set of numbers o… (View Post)