The next election will be between various populist parties - Lab, Con, Reform LD, Green, fringe Inds and Nats. The only difference is that they will all be aiming their own brand of populism at diffe… (View Post)

How much of your lunch was for the food and how much for the setting and how much for the pretension. The £42 fish and chips at Claridges seems about equal amounts for food, setting and pretension. (View Post)

Not the same thing given that Germany had only been united in 1871. Not to mention that Austria would historically have been counted as part of Germany but was only part of the German state between 1… (View Post)

What these maps show is that there are far greater differences in affluence/deprivation within towns and districts than there are between different areas of the country. (View Post)

Another legacy of Merkel. I'm old enough to remember when every 'centrist dad' idolised her as the personification of 'good government'. (View Post)