That's Erewash, next to Broxtowe, Red Wall flavour plus some rural bits - Liz Blackman won it easily in 1997-2001, but it's drifted steadily to the Tories and Maggie Throup held it for them… (View Post)

Yes, that's an interesting point, and a further point is that "sameness" will be judged differently by different ethnic groups and individuals. To take a peaceful example, consider Eng… (View Post)

We're all free to discuss anything we like here (subject to the usual limits). But like Heathener I do think we're marginalising ourselves by obsessing about trans issues which I'd gue… (View Post)

Yes indeed, in fact it's a general rule of life. In general, almost nobody is very interested in anything we do unless it's ridiculous or outrageous. If we see someone else sitting on their… (View Post)

Sacking Hunt in favour of Sunak just when Hunt has stabilised the market would be insane. This isn't a musical chairs game ffs. On Blair/Brown, there are different kinds of intelligence, broadly… (View Post)