These things are fun, but they are all mad counterfactuals. If a radically different course had been taken almost 250 years ago, neither Britain nor America would be the same in all sorts of totally … (View Post)

This is an interesting exercise by Electoral Calculus but I suspect overstates the likely impact, as it starts from an entirely clean slate and draws up seats which may be logical but depart quite a … (View Post)

Much though I respect Nick Palmer, the premise of this article is ludicrous. "But the practice has almost died out" - what on earth are you talking about, Nick? There were a shed load of de… (View Post)

It's true that, if you look at Jacinda Ardern; squint a bit; imagine her as a far left, grumpy old Venezuala obsessed nutcase with a huge and unaddressed anti-semitism problem; and ignore the fa… (View Post)

He appears to get elected as Unite's General Secretary, and to have won praise from Corbynites for providing muscular support, so they clearly do exist in the Labour movement, I'm afraid. H… (View Post)