Impossible to say. Gabb’s thesis, and it seems plausible to me, is that what brought his government down was the huge cost of suppressing first Boudicca’s revolt, and next the Judaean revolt. Big tax… (View Post)

I’ve just spent a couple of hours listening to Sean Gabb’s lectures on Nero. He concludes that he did murder his brother, mother and wife; castrate Sporus in an attempt to turn him into a woman; and … (View Post)

IMHO, Labour will fall to third place, in polls, this year, and have horrible local, and by, election results. That doesn’t rule out a recovery later on, however. (View Post)

I went to Casino in October. It’s quite a sad town. It’s a place of pilgrimage to Poles, Germans, Americans, New Zealanders, and Indians. But, the locals just want to forget about the battle that des… (View Post)

I expect that Labour will be down, too. There's still ground for them to lose in Durham, Lancashire, and the Midlands. (View Post)