That would be an interesting test, because it has to be said there\s never previously been a period of calm co-existence. Prior to the Union there was obviously the perpetual tension between England … (View Post)

Interesting that Sunak simply directed him to the Treasury. The chumocracy in action. (View Post)

The House of Lords ermine is now permanently connected in my mind with that image of Thatcher, sitting in there alone and at the wrong time, with the ermine wrapped around her , and in her latter yea… (View Post)

It seems about 400 years ago now that getting rid of the first tranche of hereditaries was supposed to be a short-term "stepping stone". Accounting for the typical British pace, the rest wi… (View Post)

I'm afraid it must be said that much of the rest of the world won't view a combination of increasing nuclear warheads and prioritising relations with far-distant countries as fundamentally … (View Post)