In Tony Blair's case it was the story of his telling that grew in the telling - he never claimed to have watched Jackie Milburn from the terraces in the first place. (View Post)

That would be the second derivative. Your graph is the first derivative. Net inward migration is falling, but it is still above zero. (View Post)

Easy to make hyperbolic claims of "carpet bombing". Carpet bombing a heavily populated urban area would kill more than the 90 a day claimed by Hamas. Indeed if one were to carpet bomb Gaza … (View Post)

The whole of Palestine wasn't converted into a home for Jewish people. The vast majority of it was converted into Jordan. That the remainder doesn't contain a further Arab state is the fault of const… (View Post)

There's an outside possibility of them becoming the official opposition in Oxfordshire, mind you, if the stars align very precisely and the Tories are smashed as badly as expected in the Tory-LD marg… (View Post)