Much in the same way as it's only the "liberal elite" that worry out about due process, trial by jury, detention without trial, and all that sort of obsessive stuff. (View Post)

There are signs of it turning into the new "political correctness gone mad", just as political correctness went from something fairly academically specific at the turn of the '90s to a… (View Post)

It's a blatantly and unashamedly Repubican-inspired, Dominic-Cummings-era Trumpian fad to restrain democracy. Even though forms of it were earlier considered, rhetorically and theoretically , as… (View Post)

Now there I do agree with you. Perception is everything, and Johnson is a master of the gesture and first impression. (View Post)

Mandelson seems to be declaring war on the left. This will probably end in breakup, which will only work in the long-term if the right coalition agreements are in place. If it ends in pure acrimony, … (View Post)