Like everyone the British fought for their own self interest. Since the goal of British foreign policy was generally to prevent the emergence of a dominant power in continental Europe, this often inv… (View Post)

I was speaking to a friend who works in this area (child mental health, not directly with trans patients) who said the Cass report was full of really sensible stuff but had inevitably been distorted … (View Post)

Don't worry, when wealthy people go there they stop being interesting. (View Post)

Obviously I'd like Labour to win both. But if Street - who by all accounts is a decent guy doing a reasonable job - loses while Houchen - who has a cloud of scandal that looks quite substantive … (View Post)

I guess it depends what you mean by "work". Will it deter some people from coming? Almost certainly, who wants to go to Rwanda, a poor country with a bad human rights record. Will it have a… (View Post)