And yet an awful lot of people marched over to the Capitol and were... much less than peaceful. Something made them really really cross, and it can't have been a BBC programme broadcast several years… (View Post)

"Besides," said the turkey, "I don't think my reputation can survive being pardoned by Trump." (View Post)

Yes, that's getting close to the heart of the matter, which might be why no politicians are satisfying whatever it is we are demanding. Because we don't really know what we want, except in negatives … (View Post)

Convention would be needing to hold her seat in a GE to wipe the slate clean. (Which is quite a good calibration- a significant penalty for an ambitious politician, but not entirely fatal.) But she c… (View Post)

Fair enough. Then we have the wider problem, that anyone with the self-awareness to succeed at the top in politics will be self-aware enough to not touch the job with a bargepole. (View Post)