Russia is certainly throwing everything it has at the Donbas. The cost is 80,000 casualties in two months, and economy which is now in freefall. Interest rates are 21%, and even so, well below the ra… (View Post)

It's to do now, with party loyalty running vertically through classes, rather than horizontally, across them. People are still used to the idea of upper middle class people being overwhelmingly … (View Post)

“The customer is always right, in matters of taste.” If you produce a product that people don’t like, and don’t understand the market you are aiming at, that is on you, not the customers. (View Post)

@Cookie I felt much the same way. We've gone from UUP/SDLP/Alliance winning 53% between them in 1998, to 37% now. The centre ground was hollowed out. (View Post)

The nadir in Labour's political fortunes is likely two years away. I would not be surprised to see them polling the teens by that point. (View Post)