There’s no point being in government, if you can’t take a decision some people will not like. The triple lock has to go. (View Post)

I don’t doubt there is a fair-sized minority of people who would eagerly ban the public profession of Christianity, so Christians should be opposed to supporting a ban on Muslim prayer. (View Post)

Counter-factuals are always speculative, but I wonder how things would have turned out, had the rebels lost. Would slavery have ended sooner, or would the US civil war have been fought across the who… (View Post)

I think the colonies would push West, but I doubt if the British would have had the same interest in encouraging mass migration from Europe. They had far more interest in trading with Latin America, … (View Post)

You will never get a Labour PM who is as left wing as you would like, because a Labour PM has to deal with the world as it is, not as you wish it to be. Attlee or Wilson would have infuriated you. (View Post)