And that's one problem for Starmer. Chesterton's Fence thinking allows a lot of this processes that led to this mess to make some sense. But they have led to a nonsense outcome. Smoke, yes.… (View Post)

One of the hilarities of Brexit is how the UK replaced extreme commuters with long-haul people, here for the long haul. (View Post)

That's about the size of it. A wheel has been removed from the Starmer wagon, but it will likely keep rolling along for a while yet. Sorry Dan- I'm sure you'll stop that pigeon one day… (View Post)

Though that's a fairly... Protestant... attitude to take to a Pope, isn't it? (View Post)

Probably not that much. Partly because similar great scandals (Westland, Hutton, Scott etc etc) mostly confirmed existing views rather than switching opinions, but mostly because Starmer had few fans… (View Post)