Exactly. The real objections are purely Nimbyish - some, perhaps many, people in the countryside strongly object, in exactly the same way that they object to electricity pylons. I don't disrespe… (View Post)

Having predicted Truss from the start, I'm chuffed and slightly richer. I think quite a bit of tactical voting may have been happening to squeezde out others. What would potentially change thing… (View Post)

It's remarkable interference, frankly, though I quite see why Truss is using it. In general the Ukrainian approach of handing out praise and brickbats to individual governments and even, as, her… (View Post)

It kind of is - Truss is much shorter than Mordaunt, and if MPs decided to make Badenoch the champion of the right instead of Truss, I think you'd see her well ahead on Mordaunt too. Lilico is m… (View Post)

I know you're just warming us up with some gentle trolling, but to give a serious response: the idea of a written constitution is to constrain the ability of democratically-elected governments a… (View Post)