Bercow used to regularly go way over the 30 minutes. I'm sure Hoyle could have found a way to give Abbott a question had he been determined to so do. It needn't have been in place of another MP's que… (View Post)

Progressive record for the combined ages of the two leading US presidential candidates (since stable 2-party system emerged): 1848 - Taylor (63) v Cass (66) - 130 years 1984 - Reagan (73) v Mondale (… (View Post)

Locals have named the cat Schroedinger? This being Japan, it's probably about 50m tall now, rather than dead. (View Post)

This is quite right. Although you have to factor into the equation the risk of Tory MPs dumping Sunak before the autumn, if it's not a May election. Sunak will also be aware that if he leads his part… (View Post)

It would probably be worse for Labour. I can't imagine many corporates are queuing up to book stand space, and the number of attendees at Tory conference these days isn't what it was. However, that -… (View Post)