Starmer showed how to scrape together a decent(ish) front bench despite a lot of loons on the back benches after jettisoning the socialist worker contingent and someone like Hunt/Mordant could do the… (View Post)

On Royalty my in laws worked for the British council (a fine but now neglected institution) and as a result had a few brushes with Royalty over the years. Some fairly awful experiences with Princess … (View Post)

Carson was a Dubliner who said "I was only a puppet, and so was Ulster, and so was Ireland, in the political game that was to get the Conservative Party into power." (View Post)

Of course the GFA ceded the future of NI to the people of Ireland. It became part of the constitution of two countries - the UK and the Republic of Ireland. Amongst other things it led to the revocat… (View Post)

Slight sense today that things are beginning to slip away from the PM don't you think? (View Post)