For the same reason that richer parts of a country, like London or the coastal united states, fund poorer pars of a country. To keep a society or economy functioning, and prevent it from collapse. (View Post)

Currently on Sky Arts with the South Bank Show tonight. A damning indictment of what Thatcher's Broadcasting Act did to ITV ( and Channel 4, and highbrow broadcasting in Britain in general ). (View Post)

Bademoch, Mordaunt and Sunak are all still in it for the future, I think. Tugendhat needs a government post first, hence the Truss bootlicking. (View Post)

I believe in Liz. She's the right candidate in the right place at the right time. To destroy the Tory Party's electoral prospects for a decade to come. I will be getting behind her, and adv… (View Post)

When the EU finally collapses, a special delegation will arrive from France with gifts and libations. In a spectacle unseen since the Field of the Cloth of Gold, and in a public ceremony pre-planned … (View Post)