I don't have a firm view on the Palestine statehood push, but it is pretty pathetic that a Government so apparently slavish to 'international law' that it gives up territory on the strength of an adv… (View Post)

Starmer's Government did not even participate in the recent letter by several EU Governments asking for reform of the convention. Which by the way was comprehensively rebuffed. https://www.eunews.it/… (View Post)

The problems are not really political, they are legal. Rwanda would probably work. Vastly reducing the grant rate would (less quickly and showily) work. Reducing the eligibility of coming to the UK b… (View Post)

You can suggest it - doesn't make it true. Thatcher's revolution (as wiser comments have acknowledged) was itself a reaction to the stagnation and decline caused by the post-war consensus around stat… (View Post)

Stop it, he's in no mood for a sponge bath. (View Post)