Rishi missed a trick by not keeping Rees-Mogg on and having him make the ignominious climbdown. He could have destroyed JRM's mystique and that of the ERG once and for all. As it is, Mogg is now pran… (View Post)

I doubt the average Daily Mail reader gets too hung up over 'People Smugglers'. If the boat people were all legitimate asylum seekers without a gang master in sight, they'd still want them torpedoed. (View Post)

Though the magic is mostly gone now, it's fascinating to behold what a political phenomenon Nigel Farage was back in the day. Tice, Fox etc. - none of his current imitators are anywhere near that lea… (View Post)

I get the feeling that the alt-Right phenomenon, and its later manifestations, is suddenly starting to eat itself. (View Post)

I was mainly pointing out their powers of arrest are pretty broad. They merely have to suspect that you're going to do something naughty to nick you. So with the luggage straps or whatever, how can y… (View Post)