If you’re looking for counterfactuals from the 1930’s the most important is that if Britain and France had taken a hard line with the Nazis from the outset, the number of refugees would have been min… (View Post)

Blame can be shifted (it worked for the SNP up till 2024, and has worked for Welsh Labour, hitherto), up till the point that Reform win an overall majority. (View Post)

Arguments on social media tend to devolve very rapidly into ad hominem attacks, the erection of straw men, trolling, and people generally arguing in bad faith. (View Post)

I think that Reform would have swept Hastings, Wealden, and Rother, giving them an overall majority on East Sussex. I expect they'd have reached largest party status in West Sussex, sweeping Crawley … (View Post)

Had the Metroplitan Boroughs, and urban unitary authorities been contested, it would have been a bloodbath for Labour. (View Post)