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)

I agree with all of that. (View Post)

The lesson for us, and peer nations, like Canada, France, Germany, Japan etc. is to hang together, or hang separately, but I fear that we’re mostly still at the stage of trying to score points off ea… (View Post)

It’s depressing to actually be living inside one of those violent, dystopian films, depicting the breakdown of civilisation, I’m actually witnessing the ending of liberal democracy, and the coming (o… (View Post)