And a very fine thread it is! I had lunch on Sunday in Knutsford which is a village in the Constituency of Tatton. My straw poll of young voters who barely realised there was an election in the offin… (View Post)

There are a lot of revisionist historians when it comes to Thatcher. Charles Moore was another. Here is a more charitable view than I and others who used to march against apartheid took of her. But s… (View Post)

Her boasting about being the only country not to have sanctions against apartheid South Africa pipped her gay bashing for me. I just don't get this Thatcher revisionism. (View Post)

It tells you something that when the Tories have their backs to the wall they head to the darkest hard right corners they can find. Do they really have such a low opinion of their fellow Britons or m… (View Post)

The delusion of British exceptionalism https://www.cer.eu/insights/british-and-their-exceptionalism (View Post)