Wilson and his many types of aspiration, in other words. I've flogged the theme to death, but culturally, too, he also had as much an ear for the Beatles as Bolsover. (View Post)

With Sandbrook, he's a better journalist and writer than he is a thinker, on the whole. Some of his accounts of the period are quite unashamedly and obviously skewed, other parts quite colourful… (View Post)

The signs of realignment seem to be more in the Surrey/Cambridge/Canterbury/Folkestone-type of areas, from what I can see, where Labour seem to be making some amounts of progress. Very thoughtful and… (View Post)

The Binface ground operation has swept away Piers Corbyn almost into the rain-drenched gutters, but Professor Lawrence Fox still seems to be ahead of both. (View Post)

The shift accelerated around 2005, though, and I think you have to look at the cultural shift that occurred in both the old Labour heartlands and metropolitan areas during that time concurrently , to… (View Post)