So, just common assault then rather than some form of infanticide? Presumably you'd extend the same leniency to the father aborting the child in the same way? Yes, she absolutely should be prosecuted… (View Post)

But sometimes parties do break through. It's rare but it's not an impossibility. Labour did. The SNP did in Scotland. Yes, you can argue 'special case' for both of them; one down to WWI / Liberal spl… (View Post)

And its attack on Iran, which is justified - not least by the report released just yesterday on Iran's breaches of its nuclear deal obligations - will now only be seen in the context of Israel's wide… (View Post)

Europe running its defences down after 1991 was entirely sensible. Not building them up again after 2008 and Putin's invasion of Georgia, or even his Munich speech the year before, was not. (View Post)

To be fair, preventing Iran from getting nukes isn't dirty work. (View Post)