Morning all :) Whatever others might say, the significant event yesterday was the Kensington Treaty and a big step on the re-definition of Britain’s relationship with Europe. The traditional enemies … (View Post)

The last significant extension to the franchise was in 1969 when those aged 18-21 got the vote though there have been other changes since such as giving UK citizens living abroad the vote in the 1980… (View Post)

Well, yes, but oppositions need to promise “change” and doing things differently to get elected. You could argue Blair from 1997-99 was basically Continuity Major but it looked different, felt differ… (View Post)

I don’t believe we’d be doing any better even if, by some miracle, Sunak had remained Prime Minister. Plenty of factors, internal and external, have caused growth to slow and not just here. The Covid… (View Post)

Morning all :) I thought it useful to refresh my memory of events in Kabul nearly four years ago and the evacuation of tens of thousands of foreign nationals and Afghan citizens and their families fo… (View Post)