Richard Haldane has entered the chat… Encouraging firearm ownership and usage won’t sit well with many Labour MPs, members and probably voters. (View Post)

That sounds exactly like the thinking before many wars kick off - “the rational calculus is X therefore Y won’t happen”. How many times in history has the country that started/expanded a war, actuall… (View Post)

Not to mention the explicit threats to Eastern European allies. Or does being pro-Eu stop at Oder–Neisse? (View Post)

As I said before, we need a word for Horrible-But-With-The-Inevitability-Of-Gravity (View Post)

If you show the slightest evidence of being conciliatory, you will be ignored. Then people wonder why every pressure group is absolutist. (View Post)