Tories

The collapse of the state

17/08/2018 thomas 0 Comments

I finally got round to reading Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens last week, and it was quite a good read in

05/03/2018 thomas 0 Comments

The historian Robert Saunders tweeted a great thread yesterday about the world view of the Tory Brexiteers. Here it is:

05/01/2018 thomas 1 Comment

Tory prime ministers need to keep their party members happy if they want to remain in power. Otherwise they’ll quickly

19/11/201719/11/2017 thomas 1 Comment

Many people seem to think that the Brexit process is being led by a bunch of idiots. If only. Most

31/08/2017 thomas 3 Comments

Rational people (including most Remainers) have been assuming that the UK and the EU of course would negotiate a reasonable

19/05/201719/05/2017 thomas 1 Comment

In most democracies, politics in the past century was dominated by two large parties – a socialist or social-democratic party

18/04/2017 thomas 0 Comments

Theresa May seems to hate dissent. She wanted to push through Brexit without parliamentary approval, and she was happy to