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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)

Stoke is, of course, in the Midlands (View Post)

It's an interesting feature of the far-right and far-left that they will back their country's enemies against what they perceive as their domestic enemies. The absolutely bizarre thing in this case i… (View Post)

It's always been true to a degree. Adam Tooze's Deluge was good on this, talking about the US's strategic aims at the end of the First World War in pushing for disarmament. It wasn't because Wilson w… (View Post)

There's a coral beach near Applecross and that whole region, if you get the weather right, feels downright tropical. Midges included! (View Post)