The thing about ID is that nearly everyone else has ID cards which people carry as routinely as we carry credit cards, so asking people to show it is no big deal at all. Lots of people in Britain don… (View Post)

I commented on this the other day, as a quirk of how the war is making people contort themselves. I think that Morawiecki in the last resort probably wants Le Pen more as a strategic ally than he wan… (View Post)

One thing that strikes me is how toxic it is for the PM to fall out with the Chancellor -Blair and Brown were excellent partners until they weren't, and you can measure the decline in Labour… (View Post)

Basically, as Leon said the other day, African countries saying "We see Europeans are bombing each other, nothing to do with us". It's payback for the collective shrug with which we gr… (View Post)

The one about finding policies which have popular appeal but are just controversial enough to be attacked in the right-wing media? It's a tricky art but great if you can do it! Are you feeling b… (View Post)