Curious. I recall someone on this this site, from his dinner party anecdotes, claiming that Reform are now surging in exactly these sort of seats. (View Post)

I had a very relaxing summer and can't recall witnessing any aggro anywhere. I still can't quite decide if the elements of the British Right who are claiming the country is literally ablaze… (View Post)

One Austrian who'll be spinning in his grave at the turn of recent global political events is the great Karl Popper. (View Post)

I suspect Goodwin lives or dies with Reform. If they succeed then I can very much see him being bussed in as a kind of court intellectual; if they flop I can't see him keeping this sort of stuff… (View Post)

It's a shame British English no longer embraces 'gotten' the way American English does. I've always thought there was something useful and elegant in the way the simple past tense… (View Post)