The designers of devolution have left us in Hotel California. Two fifths of the Scottish electorate go SNP while the other three fifths are hopelessly split. Even though there's an approximation… (View Post)

Long ago the Sunday Times analysed many political leaders' speeches for egotism, using the simple metric of the frequency of use of the first person singular. The least egotistic person by that … (View Post)

That's a fine Gallic tradition. When de Gaulle referred to La France he meant himself. (View Post)

The fact is those small energy suppliers were speculating and have been literally caught short. (View Post)

In the respective upcoming elections in France and Australia, the effect of the spat between them will be more favourable to Scott Morrison than to Emmanuel Macron in my opinion. (View Post)