On the Senate, I thought that the GOP were almost guaranteed to gain control because two of the DEM seats up for election this time are Montana and West Virginia. In all the Democrats hold eight Sena… (View Post)

There will have been people who, if they had been born just a few hours earlier, they would have received an extra six years of state pension. Doesn't that strike you as a bit odd? (View Post)

On the Irish TV news this evening there was a clip of the White House spokesperson giving their best wishes to the "Duchess of Cam-bridge". Even on a day with lots of other international ne… (View Post)

Agreed on bold. A government can only do so many things at once. The next government could either waste its time obsessing about the UK's relationship with the EU, or it could do something effec… (View Post)

The Russians will blame it on Ukraine and use it to justify a much larger mobilisation and conscription. Just earlier today they used the word "war" to describe the war they started in Ukra… (View Post)