I wonder if Starmer needs to take a more visible line both on the law and on "not getting Brexit done", together. "Many people will be outraged that this Government are prepared to tra… (View Post)

I read that curiously overloaded and overlong headline, at first glance, as "Johnson a threat to the integrity to the UK". and judging by this week's events I think the first glance wa… (View Post)

Also, although the relatively recent total dominance of English encourages a sense of English exceptionalism, it's only indirectly due to its originator. It's very much Pax Americana. (View Post)

That is the first genuinely worrying graph I've seen since April. Let's hope the circumstances aren't the same here, as France and Britain do seem to have diverged substantially on thi… (View Post)

Personally I think he's right, in terms of modern lifetimes ; and I'm quite a bit older. I'd rate it as the worst government since Thatcher's scorched-earth, monetarist-laboratory… (View Post)