Liz Truss might be popular with the membership but do they see her as Prime Minister material? My impression is that she is a competent minister and something of a happy warrior which party members t… (View Post)

As a non football fan I can't understand the amount of license given to bad behaviour because of it. The photos in the Guardian of England fans 'celebrating' would have been called a b… (View Post)

I think Boris most resembles the monkey White King from Georgi Markov's "The Right Honourable Chimpanzee". I'm thinking of the ability to get by in the Commons with historical quo… (View Post)

From my GCSE years through to my degree I have been taught any number of theories on history that I came to disagree with for one reason or another. Long Duration, Marxist History, Whig etc etc. Even… (View Post)

Church goers of a certain age may remember that the tune of the German national anthem is also used for the hymn "Glorious Things Of Thee Are Spoken" written by John Newton. The Austrian Em… (View Post)