China, Russia, India, Israel, the USA, France, all play according to big boys’ rules. They aren’t impressed by handwringing or apologies. They don’t agonise over the past. Our own leaders are simply … (View Post)

An optimist thinks no government could be worse than the last one. A pessimist knows that it can. (View Post)

Labour had NEV’s of 33-35% in 2022/24. Averaging out vote changes in recent weeks gives a decline in vote share of 14% or so. If that does not improve, you should expect local election results as bad… (View Post)

@TSE and others, on this theme, do you ever still get exam dreams? Last night I dreamt I was it was the day before A Level History, and I'd done no revision. I was frantically looking up wikiped… (View Post)

With my 3A's and 4B's for O Level, I'd have been beaten black and blue by a West African mother. (View Post)