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 t… (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… (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)