Like every other election winner ever. If you don't want to look foolish, don't join the bloody circus. (View Post)

Absolutely. But the variability over time points to the issue not being the religions so much as the way some powerful people exploit them. (View Post)

Or, further back in history, compared the degree of tolerance shown by al-Andalus and reconquista Spain. It's fair to say that you have to work quite hard to get a justification for militaristic… (View Post)

Strong echoes- both probably unelectable in themselves, inserting themselves as the brains to someone to lazy/gaga to run the show themselves. Important difference, though. Once Cummings was forced o… (View Post)

Hardly. However much it's harder than it looks, however much shit the other lot left to clear up, however much fun it is hollering from the sidelines... For any sane politician, being in governm… (View Post)