Yes, that's very well put. The attemptys to get round the negotiating team by talking to Merkel and Macron are just seen in the EU as a baffling misunderstanding of the process. They couldn'… (View Post)

To misquote Enoch Powell on media coverage - "A British politician who complains about Europe is like a ship's captain who complains about the sea." (View Post)

I'm a fan - you can get them in Waitrose too, next to the lumpen caviar (which is also good). They're tangy, not a taste the British diet has much of, so a genuine change of flavour. (View Post)

I know them both a bit, and hesitate to criticise people personally when I get on with them. Conversely, I think many people are too ready to assess and even psychoanalyse public figures whom they on… (View Post)

This is a sertious point beyond Brexit, which also affects the other parties. What are the conditions that we expect of people taking the whip? Is it, as you imply, absolute support or at worst silen… (View Post)