The use of the word (nearly always in a hostile way) is too fluid to make it useful - it's become something of a straw man like "capitalist", "red", "imperialist" a… (View Post)

Vote Labour to save the Union, you say? (jots down note) (View Post)

I'm sure that's true. What puzzles me - and it's really not a partisan point - is why the evacuation of most people whom we want to get out wasn't quietly started a few weeks ago.… (View Post)

Not sure the relatives of the 111 people who died from it yesterday would agree. We're clearly over the worst, and entitled to take pleasure from increasing normality, but it's too early to… (View Post)

You can't rely on public opinion being stable on war issues - quite understandably they respond to events, and less understandably they often forget that they previously thought differently. (View Post)