Disagree on our intervention vs Gaddafi, based on some admittedfly extrfemely bellicose statements by his son. Gaddafi was a unique case of someone talked into giving up WMD voluntarily, whereupon we… (View Post)

Number of refugees by country is shown here (click on "Refugees by country" column in the table after you scroll down). https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/refugees-by-countr… (View Post)

Labour is tantalisingly close to a real breakthrough in Scottish seats - it's not hard to imagine a further narrowing of the Lab-SNP gap based on tactical Unionist voting plus continued slight e… (View Post)

To some extent I think this is the cohort of voters who were more left of centre as usual in their 40s but who have not moved to the right as they got older, as was the past pattern. Perhaps because … (View Post)

I don't know how many politicians in Brussels you knew/know, Richard? My view, not limited to any particular party, is that the standard of Euro-MPs is distinctinctly better in terms of getting … (View Post)