Johnson was from the end of politics where, if you want something enough and argue for it eloquently enough, it will happen. The sort of thing that underpins Debate Soc, or oped columns. Sometimes th… (View Post)

Like every other election winner ever. If you don't want to look foolish, don't join the bloody circus. (View Post)

Absolutely. But the variability over time points to the issue not being the religions so much as the way some powerful people exploit them. (View Post)

Or, further back in history, compared the degree of tolerance shown by al-Andalus and reconquista Spain. It's fair to say that you have to work quite hard to get a justification for militaristic… (View Post)

Strong echoes- both probably unelectable in themselves, inserting themselves as the brains to someone to lazy/gaga to run the show themselves. Important difference, though. Once Cummings was forced o… (View Post)