Isn't Starmer's family connection simply that his wife (and by extension children) are Jewish so you'd not really expect him to "seem" particularly Jewish himself? No doubt p… (View Post)

I think this possibly isn't that "lovely" a story as the underlying basis may well be the old conspiracy theory that both he and Jimmy Savile were Freemasons, and that this explains wh… (View Post)

"That just 29% of FT readers are Tory backers is one that I would not have predicted." The FT rather surprisingly endorsed Labour in 1992, then through the Blair years, before going for Cam… (View Post)

I see "Prince Ankit Love, Emperor of India", is standing in both Rutherglen and in Mid Beds. Surely he has to win one of these, simply by the law of averages? (View Post)

I always find those sorts of polls interesting in that newspaper choice is not nearly as predictive of voting as people who are ultra-interested in British politics tend to expect. Plenty of people g… (View Post)