Yes, well, the field is just awful. Pecresse has triangulated herself into a corner, Melanchon is a trotskyist trouble-maker, Zemmour is a near-fascist poseur. there is a scattering of candidates wit… (View Post)

Welcome back, Big John"! Hope you're keeping well. In the circs with blanket coverage of his saying nice things about Ukraine, I think Johnson will be a bit disappointed not to be bounding … (View Post)

Really hope it went well - let us know how you're feeling. (View Post)

As usual in these polls people generally picked a middle option. But there has always been a willingness to accept genuine refugees from a desperate situation if they came through an official channel… (View Post)

It's a fair question, but I'd point out that my teenage communism was exactly because of the rise of the democratic western brand epitomised by Berlinguer in Italy and Hermansson in Sweden … (View Post)