The current poll numbers wouldn’t bear that hypothesis out. I am not sensing a backlash in the country against the government right now, in fact, if anything there seems to be more goodwill for Boris… (View Post)

Someone has edited Wikipedia to list Hungary’s government type as “dictatorship”! (View Post)

There will always be those in any society who take the opportunity when a vast amount of power is transferred to the state to use that power to the maximum extent possible, even going so far as to wi… (View Post)

What we don’t know yet is whether these places have shifted purely on the basis of Brexit (ie the votes have been “lent”) or whether it is part of a wider shift that Brexit helped along. Whilst it is… (View Post)

Alcohol is the only thing keeping me moderately (in)sane at this moment in time. I understand why they’re doing it but goodness, there’s no way they could manage that in the UK. There’d be riots. (View Post)