More likely is that, if that scenario was looming, Russia would declare victory with the gains it had and then expect the West to tell Ukraine to stop fighting given the effect it is having on the wo… (View Post)

I would go for that. I don't think Muslim voters in Metropolitan France (especially around Paris) will go for MLP. But they may stay at home, especially given the view that Macron was on course for v… (View Post)

I probably am Kinabalu although projecting one’s opinions onto the rest of the population is a specialty of this site. However, you don’t have to believe me, you just have to look at what has happene… (View Post)

Quite unusually, I agreed with most of your post until I got to the second half of the last paragraph. I don’t think the country is convinced that there is a “safe and competent Labour alternative”. … (View Post)

Cue Roger and Scott to tell us why Scholz is right and Johnson is wrong. (View Post)