Interesting article, thanks Philip. A few thoughts: * It's certainly true that IndyRef2 can't be refused indefinitely if Scots keep voting for parties that want it. We are internationally a… (View Post)

Startled to read the Electoral Commission guidance to local election candidates - while it cautions that lying about opponents' personal lives is a serious offence, it says blandly that lying ab… (View Post)

From an animal welfare and farming perspective, a curious feature of the NZ negotiations is that their welfare standards are on the whole higher than ours - unlike the US or Australia. So Ministers a… (View Post)

Yes, when globalisation really got going I thought it was going to gradually change everything in politics - not necessarily for the worse, but quite drastically. The two obvious changes have been a … (View Post)

I'm enjoying the surge of leftism on the right in all this - Tory government flirting with compulsory 50%+1 fan management, and now talk of seizing the assets of the owners, presumably without c… (View Post)