On Henry VIII it surprised me as an adult to learn quite how long he was married to Catherine of Aragon - more than twenty years! Obviously he went through them with bloodthirsty pace afterwards, but… (View Post)

Yes. The dying days of every Prime Minister are filled with announcements of things that don't happen, and it will only be more so with Starmer. (View Post)

If people hadn't broken the law and refused to pay the poll tax we would still have it. Nobody is happy with its replacement, council tax, but it's survived because no-one has been willing … (View Post)

I am here because of the reasoned arguments contributed, and the insight those sometimes contain, yes. It's helpful for those reasoned arguments to come from a wide variety of political philosop… (View Post)

Pretty much, yes. It kinda bled over. People would be cagey about saying anything. I had much more political conversations with the parents of my daughter's schoolfriends. (View Post)