With respect , we are part of the 'commentariat' and as such far from being representative of the typical voter! I have not encountered people discussing Brexit since last January - it is no longer a… (View Post)

Robin Cook was very good too - as was Hugh Gaitskell. (View Post)

There comes a point when someone with charisma - such as Johnson - loses so much credibility that he becomes a figure of fun and ridicule.That happened to Macmillan in the early 1960s - by 1962 he wa… (View Post)

Sadly no award for Mark Francois this year. What a shame! (View Post)

I believe that continued to be the case until the 1920s!It also only applied to appointments as Cabinet Ministers. When Churchill became Under Secretary at the Colonial Office in 1906 he did not face… (View Post)