Does this open up a potential route for Streeting to win? Suppose the left of Labour is split between Rayner-backers, Burnham-holdouts, and the Milifans, is it possible none of them will reach the re… (View Post)

Voting for the Greens in this seat, if there is a by-election, doesn't give the Greens any chance of implementing any policies. But it could stop Burnham from being elected as an MP, which would… (View Post)

I don't think the sadistic acts perpetrated by Hamas on October 7th are that unusual. British forces fighting the Indian Mutiny in 1857 did horrific things, and Russian forces in Ukraine also. W… (View Post)

He had to leak it now otherwise the idea would have been established that he'd chickened out, that Starmer had seen him off, and he would have looked absurd belatedly going over the top tomorrow. (View Post)

I was reading a similar story about a meeting between Queen Jinga and the Portuguese governor of Luanda. The governor refused to provide Jinga with a chair, so that she would be obliged to remain sta… (View Post)