No election is good to lose. It is true to say that there are certain periods of time when the conjunction of issues would challenge even the angels. The early 90s was one, the most recent half decad… (View Post)

This thread about Simon Case’s WhatsApps in govt around Covid time is properly mental. https://x.com/jim_reed/status/1793311196218626382?s=61 (View Post)

It will prove easier to unify relativity and quantum mechanics than to explain that. (View Post)

Well in 1997 the opening of the campaign involved a massive row about Major proroguing Parliament to avoid debating a standards report into Cash for Questions. The furore resulted in Martin Bell stan… (View Post)

Indeed. One other similarity to 1906 is that it was the first election of a new reign following the death of a very long reigning monarch. 1945 was also the first election of the reign albeit for som… (View Post)