The central mystery though... What happens in middle England? The boring suburbs, the sort-of OK small commuter towns? Provincial, but without the chip on the shoulder? At the moment, nobody is reall… (View Post)

The real problem is that a non-trivial number of Conservatives would quite like Reform to eat up the Conservative Party. They look at what happened in Canada and see that as a good thing. (View Post)

It's horrible, difficult, and creates all sorts of problems when you try and run an organisation or country that way ("trespassers will be forgiven", as the Franciscan farm sign says).… (View Post)

Defintely don't drive round a roundabout 7 times. You'll get dizzy. (View Post)

The challenge with undergrad and early postgrad dissertations is that... Yes, you want something new, but it's also got to be something that's pretty much certain to work, because otherwise… (View Post)