He was though. At best you can say he aspired to be a benign white supremacist - his early career ambition was to be Viceroy of India, to which end he learned two Indian languages - but he took it as… (View Post)

It doesn't change the story. Christie dropping out is a lower-order good thing / bad thing for Trump. On the one hand, it removes the strongest critical voice in the campaign (and Trump will use that… (View Post)

It's the taxpayers of the local council/s, as I understand it. But yes, it's easy to say 'unnecessary by-election' but what does that look like in practice? Where is the line between 'unnecessary' an… (View Post)

The Boiling Frog Syndrome* ratchets up another fraction of a degree. Had this sort of poll been published 10 years ago, it would have been both shocking and not credible. By contrast, AfD polling in … (View Post)

Going after Ed Davey may prove a strategic error for the Tories. At some point, people might twig that if a minister in 2010-12 was responsible for the Post Office, then maybe later ministers were to… (View Post)