Johnson is a near neighbour in my Oxfordshire village - regularly see him shambling about with miscellaneous kids, and get an amiable greeting from him. A friend who hadn't recognised him was co… (View Post)

I was a Labour MP for 13 years under Blair and Brown, and broadly supportive, not because I agreed with everything, but because I liked the overall sense of direction towards a more equal society. I&… (View Post)

You feel he should appease them? (View Post)

I don't really mind elected councils flying flags of countries that they promised to support, or British flags if they said they'd do that, or indeed refusing to fly flags. That's demo… (View Post)

Not convinced the left/right descriptors are very helpful. They hark back to simpler times, where the left were for public ownership and high taxes and public spending, and the right for the opposite… (View Post)