Reminds me very much of the Theresa May and her six-month enthusiasm for "workers on boards", taken from Ed Miliband. Very much window-dressing, but helps the government appropriate the ton… (View Post)

The culture wars won't help, though. In the long run, they're destroying Britain as they're wrecking America, and Johnson has a huge amount, if not necessarily all, of the responsibili… (View Post)

Maximising their appeal there is one way of describing it ; covering up for their vacuum of economic appeal there would be another. (View Post)

In terms of intellectual distinction of the last forty years, I would say possibly : Heseltine Brown Foot Grieve Willetts Cook (View Post)

There was an emergent idea for a West European defence force, but much as later, the UK effectively vetoed it. Once the the UK and France had made diplomatic representations to the Americans about al… (View Post)