The ERG prevented this from being a runner, and they prevented any Tory leader from proposing it. In the last parliament it wouldn't have got through. (View Post)

Yes - Camden to Islington and East London in the north, Clapham to Forest Hill or similar in the south. (View Post)

I partly agree with this, but I also think this same, religious, in the negative rather than positive sense, intolerance and stridency of expression is just as visible in the modern identity movement… (View Post)

An uncharacteristically incomplete header from AlasdairMeeks. The new virulence emanating from social media, and taking in both nativists and progressivists, is not an illusion. (View Post)

The Grayling appointment seemed to be a mixture of clear and brazen provocation, and a more subtle calculus of the more malleable uses of a less intellectually dominating figure. In other words, Clas… (View Post)