True, though misleading. The fees came in (initially at £1k/pa IIRC), in response to the Dearing Report which was commissioned by Tories, towards the end of the 1992-97 parliament. (View Post)

She would have been there whoever the finalists were. England were hosting! (View Post)

On topic, I don't think we should read too much into Biden going for Trump this early in campaign ads. My guess is they're trialling a number of comms messages in advance of the real campaign. We do,… (View Post)

Interesting that there wasn't even a measured majority in Russia for the invasion, despite the political environment there. But so much has happened since then that popular opinion in neither Russia … (View Post)

Not true. Blair's popularity in his early years was off the scale. Using the Mori leader ratings series, he had net positive ratings, usually of +20 or more, while LotO (peaking at +31 in Dec 1994), … (View Post)