I don't know - Labour has sometimes shot off to the left in response to losing, and some of the Labour members a bit too sure of their ideology to take seriously. Certainly a lot of the Tory members … (View Post)

I found my O Level German to be very useful in Eastern Europe in the early 90s, but everyone seems to speak English there now. My French is middling (A Level but rusty and I was never fluent) and the… (View Post)

Surely that reflects that, of the parties currently on offer, Labour are the ones who are most likely to govern as a small-c conservative government, which people from that background tend to support. (View Post)

And in many (most?) cases the winner is a foregone conclusion. Even in the exceptional circumstances of the last election, and with a candidate who had had some, shall we say, personal difficulties, … (View Post)

I face the reverse problem. I have no wish to stay in such a country, but nowhere else to go. And where is safe from this nonsense at the moment, anyway? Three years to work something out. (View Post)