There are any number of checks and balances in the command and control of all the nuclear powers (examples like Petrov wouldn't happen now). You're right in all the above "strongmen&qu… (View Post)

The crucial difference isn't the groundwork done in the six weeks of an election campaign but the work done in the preceding months and years. I've not checked but I reckon there will be a … (View Post)

Perhaps but "policies" (whatever that word actually means as the term is "solutions" really to problems which the current Government can't solve, won't solve or makes wo… (View Post)

Answer to the first - not in the Press certainly (the old Punch cartoons weren't kind). Among the electorate, who were largely voiceless (except at elections) it may just be the old deference ha… (View Post)

Yes, that's the strange thing, no one who is in politics is ever allowed to change their mind yet they represent parties which change their policies constantly. There's a balance between co… (View Post)