The "London isn't an English city" stuff shows how unsustainable a lot of modern English nationalism is. You can't build a new separate nation, England, on the basis of an exclusi… (View Post)

I think some of his core staff are showing signs of having gone a bit power-drunk, to be honest. There have also always been question marks over a minority of people expelled in the purges of Corbyni… (View Post)

Canada's mix of moderation and and intellectual openness is also a taste of what Churchill's Anglo-French Union could have been. What a country that would have been, as I've mentioned … (View Post)

Not pleased to see the far;right making hay with this on twitter. Paul Golding of Britain First is attracting tons of views for his postings about "civil war", when, basically , he wants to… (View Post)

There's certainly the potential for trouble here, too, but the difference in France is I think that constant low-level hum of antipathy that you feel there. I don't feel that in Brixton, Pe… (View Post)