I think that 'the highest court in the land' should always be the national courts. An international court above that should have no powers at all, but a range of sanctions at its disposal. (View Post)

Happily the Royal Navy in recent years hasn't bothered too much with spending money on functioning ships. (View Post)

I think you're talking him up. Ostensibly he seems a very clever and rather nice guy. The sort of person that you'd trust to be PM. However his actions since becoming PM are unintelligent, weak and f… (View Post)

As it stands there seems to be a huge investment case for Acton - not a bad part of London, and very handy for Heathrow. (View Post)

Not that I think, want or wish that Boris was PM now, but I'm far from sure that if he was things would be worse. I've spent much of the weekend speaking to many old and wise friends - much in contra… (View Post)