It's this kind of background that is so helpful in describing why concepts of the 'Anglosphere' beloved by Daniel Hannan and others are so self-deluding. Are there a group of nations w… (View Post)

But Theresa May and the ERG stopped this route to avoiding economic damage. That's the key fact of the years 2017-20 of the Brexit debate, and will be remembered in that way, too. (View Post)

First, and the intervention from US Congressmen, after the US was held up as the city on the hill against EU encroachment by many Brexiters, is a form of richly poetic justice. (View Post)

I don't think so. His overall communication, intonation, body posture, and general presence is vastly improved. If he and Starmer worked together on that speech, as reported somewhere, they'… (View Post)

The key thing that's happened with Miliband is what happens to a lot of politicians - the ability to develop a greater hinterland away from the front line of politics. Since about two years afte… (View Post)