On topic: One point which may have been missed is that sacking Raab would be a clear admission that the government was asleep on the job and that Starmer was right to lay into Boris on the issue. So … (View Post)

Essentially, yes. There's not really an establishment hierarchy in the way that the Roman Catholic church is organised. (View Post)

Well, the rumour is that Boris wants to move Gavin Williamson from Education... (View Post)

This article in The Times is the best I've seen on the Taliban as it is today: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-taliban-are-back-richer-more-powerful-and-even-more-dangerous-rmd0p8shw (£££… (View Post)

It's always hard to judge during the thick of things, but my hunch FWIW is that this will damage Biden. The utter chaos, the humiliation, the crude attempts to blame Trump, and the increasingly … (View Post)