It's so strange. I remember working in Asda before Christmas and seeing a family buying two full trolleys of food when the shops were shut for only two days. We tended to diagnose yuletide madness ra… (View Post)

If very large numbers of people are going to ignore those rules it will not make any difference. Clearly compliance has already dropped due to rules fatigue. 20% of the population have visited someon… (View Post)

There is an interesting cultural comparison there - the Prussians were seen as the very traditional elitists and were usurped by those they thought they controlled. Franz von Papen thought he had 'hi… (View Post)

Not sure I understand how Brexit is 'far-right'. By definition far right is a form of extreme nationalism, which by virtue of it winning a referendum Brexit cannot be. Neither does it seem to be exce… (View Post)

What CHB means when he says the Government is doing nothing is that they are not doing what he thinks they should. And what he means when he says Drakeford is decisive is that he has decided to do so… (View Post)