Appalling as he was in many ways, Cyril Smith was right about what to do if another party pops up on your turf. (Strangle it at birth, to save the youngsters from seeing a load of ads on Google.) Now… (View Post)

Trouble is that sometimes the middle way gets you the best of both worlds, but sometimes it gets the worst of both. (See the post-2016 fallout. EEA might have been a middle way, but it just annoyed t… (View Post)

Whatever the rights or wrongs of the last decade of politics, it has played merry hell with the promotion pipeline. Besides- what we all want really is a leader to solve the nation's chronic pro… (View Post)

In other words, picking the fight is the aim of the exercise. (View Post)

Die Mauer im Kopf (The Wall in the head) has been a phenomenon for a while. Some other maps here; https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/commentary/long-take/die-mauer-im-kopf-the-legacy-of-division-in-germ… (View Post)