. I've taken very little interest in the case since the original verdict, but I have read the voluminous, seemingly interminable debate on PB. And I still have no opinion either way. (View Post)

The alternative would be to scrap PMQs, replace them with written questions, and require the PM to attend a beefed up Liaison Committee monthly rather than every four months. That might offer far mor… (View Post)

The percentage of convictions appealed is under 1%, I think ? So while the success rate is very high, it doesn't in itself imply a large number of wrong convictions. If anything, perhaps the opp… (View Post)

Bit awks for NATO. (View Post)

This is the absolute effing idiots version of Blair's dodgy dossier. There is no remotely plausible scenario in which Iran would have had "30 to 40 nuclear bombs" a year from now This … (View Post)