On topic, I do wonder if the New Statesman journalist probed the NEC source on what the current rules on all women shortlists in Labour are? These were dropped in the last Parliament because women ac… (View Post)

Politics is packed with examples of people who were young, considered they had plenty of time, and missed their moment. Of course, there are also plenty of examples of people who went for it and fail… (View Post)

Although these systems are sometimes confidently wrong, that doesn't mean it's ludicrous to ask them a factual question. You just need to accept that sometimes the answer will be wrong (as … (View Post)

The Chatterley trial was covered in the author's previous book about Jeremy Hutchinson QC, so presumably that's why he didn't repeat it in this one. (View Post)

Perhaps more surprisingly, nor was 2000 Miles by the Pretenders. It was about the drugs death of band member, James Honeyman-Scott in June 1982. When you look at the lyrics, they're not actually… (View Post)