Besides, if there were no Reform and no Farage is a counterfactual that's hard to assess. There might just be another hard right party. Perhaps a lot of those thinking about Reform would find Labour … (View Post)

The core Labour fib is that things will get better later in the Parliament when, somehow, their good administration of the country generates an enormous boost to economic growth that's entirely indep… (View Post)

Magafication. We have to keep everything crossed that the ceiling of support for these nutcases is lower here than it is in the States, where half the population appears to be stark staring bonkers -… (View Post)

They've had 14 years already to do something about these cliff edges. We know they exist all over the place. Look at the Carer's Allowance scandal. Whatever they're planning to unveil it'll be all ab… (View Post)

I am not an historian of the early modern period, but insofar as I understand it HY's Toryism seems quite compatible with that of the Hanoverians. The vision of a strictly stratified society in which… (View Post)