To be fair, anyone trying to be British Prime Minister right now who isn't afraid of the consequences hasn't understood the situation. And in many ways, I'm fine with gradualism. The last decade has … (View Post)

There's a bit of a difference now, thanks to social media. In the old days, the way that unacceptable behaviour was informally policed was through being shunned by your community. That worked pretty … (View Post)

The thing about evolution is that it delivers improvements for the species, eventually. But the mechanism to do that is failure and death for most of the individuals. Where most actually means nearly… (View Post)

Indicative of the strange inorganic dynamics of this whole thing, though. The protests have been real, but relatively small. Most of them had fewer people and less noise than Gosport v Basingstoke in… (View Post)

Didn't we want control of borders? (View Post)