The way I would characterise the situation is with reference to Newtonian Mechanics. Britain is currently on a political trajectory that leads to Farage becoming PM. So we only avoid Farage becoming … (View Post)

Sure, but there are other suitable stretches of French coastline, the storminess might act as a future deterrent, and crossings mostly happen in the absence of storms for obvious reasons. The point b… (View Post)

That's an interesting constitutional innovation. A recognition that the job of PM has expanded to be too much for one person. Perhaps the PM could appoint a whole team of people to help with their jo… (View Post)

I can almost imagine you saying that with a straight face. (View Post)

Even though the government made it difficult, 70,000 Jewish refugees reached Britain in the period between Hitler's rise to power and the start of WWII. Britain is now very proud of accepting these r… (View Post)