Indeed. For some reason I've been reading a fair bit about the First World War and one of the delights and pitfalls about reading history is that the mind starts to apply what's being read … (View Post)

First word of the post, of course! Presume. Who does the presuming, and who 'benefits' from the presumption are also questions with easy answers. For the first, it's 'people like … (View Post)

They hold their primary next year, row in behind them and spend the next few years hammering Trump along the party line. If they could pull it off, it could reap huge rewards but it would involve a l… (View Post)

I think the problem is that the only court capable of asserting itself isn't interested in doing so. At least two of the Justices on that court seem to be interpreting the US Constitution as adv… (View Post)

TBF to Rishi, and it's not a high bar, but he did interrupt the trend of each Conservative leader being worse than their immediate predecessor. I guess it didn't help him much. (View Post)