Incidentally, on June 28th this year we will be as long from the date of Biden's birth as Biden's birth was from the start of the US Civil War. (View Post)

No actor is old enough to play the US President unless they were on stage in the theatre when Lincoln was assassinated. (View Post)

I'm quite attracted to the 3D politics analysis from Electoral Calculus. One of the main conclusions is that you can divide British voters into broadly seven different groups. The differences be… (View Post)

It's a mentality. People's ideas about their own country are all the stuff of myth-making, with only a tenuous connection to the reality that lies behind it. And also the newness of the US … (View Post)

I'm not a Conservative. We'll see what Starmerism turns out to be - it's really hard to predict because he's shown so little indication of what his approach will be - but I includ… (View Post)