The normal ebb and flow of politics in this country should never be a cause for "despair". There are much, much, worse political cultures in this world. (View Post)

Actually, I don't blame Balfour. There was nothing actually *wrong* with the Jews having a land of their own. And. I disagree completely with the notion of Israel being a "colonialist"… (View Post)

It would certainly be intellectually dishonest to claim that "from the River to the Sea" means anything other than mass killing of Jews. (View Post)

Stroud is like Brighton, Oxford, Glastonbury, and Totnes. The loons of the radical left are in charge. But, their votes aren’t very important to Labour. (View Post)

They would. The Tories briefly backed PR in 1916, for fear they would be wiped out by universal suffrage. But, most changes to the system are driven by hope of gaining electoral advantage. (View Post)