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Context is always important. In the introduction to his book "It's A PC World" Edward Stourton writes about a retired General using the same phrase when Stourton was interviewing him about Iraq on the 'Today Programme' about a decade ago. He explains his shock at the interviewee's use of the...

Whilst agreeing with you about the direction that the country should go in politically, we currently have to accept the underlying message from Buzzer's post which is that over 40% of the country are in complete disagreement. In a democracy, the parties have to make the best of the hand dealt...

Yes. That's what they do in Sweden and they are continuously in the top ten countries in the world for health care, education, standard of living, equality and happiness.

You're absolutely right about PR. I was only using Starmer as an example of someone who exudes an air of competence that Diane Abbott will never have.

It will be interesting to see what happens next in the Labour Party. Corbyn didn't win the election, but he proved that he can win seats. However, he is still 56 seats behind the Tories and 61+ seats off winning a majority. There now seems to be a great opportunity for Labour to make the...

I would guess that most of the people thinking that are at Conservative Central Office. We all know how the Tory party works. They will support her now to stabilise party position, but there will be a reckoning and it will be bloody and brutal.

Does anyone think we might be interested in a newly released free agent. Came through Tranmere's youth system, before replacing Dalglish at Liverpool, scoring in every round of the FA Cup, being the real brains behind Craig Johnson's boots, and winning dozens of league and cup medals (all...

Only in our reality. On Paul's website he will have won a massive majority.

Surely it was always a nudge to the slips.

Clegg looked like a Shakespearean Tragic Hero ruminating on his fatal flaw. In his case hubris. 'If only i hadn't gone into that rose garden!'

They're not going to get the landslide though. However the rest of the night goes, I'm just pleased with the thought: 1997 Massive win for Labour, Brighton saved from oblivion; 2017 Massive win for for Brighton, Labour saved from oblivion.

Blimey 666 really is a beast of a number when spoken in Welsh!

Except when he said "I condemn all the bombing by both the loyalists and the IRA" I should say that I did find the British left's IRA sympathies during the eighties fairly disgusting, but then I was equally disgusted by Thatcher's support for murderous regimes in South Africa and Chile and by a...

Yes, of course I was joking. It seemed like the appropriate response to such a facile analogy.

Where is this pub? I don't know any rich people willing to pay for my beer. I currently have to pay exactly the same tax on my pint as a billionaire. Why has one of them been paid in dollars? No wonder he got cross. Is the moral that we should keep our current tax system where the rich don't...

It could be a very clever move from the Labour Party. Knowing that they won't win the election, but having realised that May has been stealing policies from the last LP manifesto, they have put some socialism in this one. You never know.