Masks are not really to protect you (they’re pretty crap at that role, although there is weak evidence is they do have some effect). What masks are very effective at is protecting everybody else from… (View Post)

This still seems like the most likely outcome to me: A BINO that gets sold as a great Boris victory over the perfidious EUrocrats. Do people really think Johnson et al will step over the precipice in… (View Post)

Personally, I think Boris started off with an enormous buffer of goodwill: the "get Brexit done" dividend if you will. It appears he’s managed to burn through most of that buffer before the… (View Post)

Er, no. Everyone knows that after-dinner speakers re-use material - that bit is hardly surprising. The point of Vine’s anecdote is how hard Johnson worked to maintain the illusion of "I just got… (View Post)

The SWP try and insert themselves into every protest movement going so this is hardly surprising news. Personally I’m a bit sceptical of any claims to "leadership" of any movement from an S… (View Post)