I'll stand anyone a bet on this. As long as PB exists we will never do any big fundamental reform of how the country works that we could not have done as a member of the EU. (View Post)

The power of parliament, before Brexit and now, is constrained by what the public will vote for. This does not include the sort of extreme right wing policies that float your boat or their left wing … (View Post)

Hardly obsessed. I'm not even particularly anti-Israel as regards the broad history of the conflict. I post quite sparingly on this topic But Bart (who is obsessed) sometimes says stuff that is … (View Post)

Sure, they've only razed the place to the ground, killed 70k mostly innocent people, injured lots more, and displaced pretty much the whole 2m population. It's the very definition of restra… (View Post)

Of course the power dynamic and proportionality is relevant. Eg if a military unit obliterates a whole town and its population in order to kill a handful of enemy operatives who are hiding there that… (View Post)