This was the view from my bedroom at Stirling University. I was a postgraduate, so we got the best accommodation. The view from the top of the Wallace Monument is amazing. You look across to Stirling Castle on its crag and it is clear how you could control Scotland only if you held Stirling.

"Moralischer Schönwetterraum" is an interesting phrase I've never seen before. A moral comfort zone? A place where one doesn't have to deal with the real world?

If there's any coherence at all to Musk's position he's advocating a civil war along racial lines in the UK. Laws wants to deport over 10 million people.

I suspect Reform UK would want politically appointed judges. They might also favour something like Gesundes Volksempfinden to require courts to do the 'right thing' regardless of what the letter of the law says. Reform has little respect for the traditional approach to the rule of law.

Facetious or not, it was more sensible than the government announcement. I doubt if even 1% of students taking STEM degrees have an A level in English Language.

In Scotland it makes sense to take Higher level English Language because pupils typically do 5 subjects in 5th year and some more in 6th if they stay on. In England, however, A level English Language is far less attractive because pupils have to specialise, taking 3 or maybe 4 A levels over 2 years.

This is nonsensical, meaningless posturing. English Language A level includes linguistics. It was introduced only in the 1980s. Before then a good O level in English Language was all that was required to demonstrate proficiency. Only a tiny minority of STEM students have A level English Language.

I agree. I have no patience with those who adopt Christianity as a cultural badge while ignoring Christian teaching. Evangelical Christians in the UK are different from those in the USA. I go to an evangelical church, whose members' politics are much the same as any other random social group.

I'm of the generation with fathers who served in WW2 and scorned nostalgia. Dad served in 1st Airborne; 1942-47, North Africa, Italy, Arnhem, Norway, Palestine, in his teens & early 20s (the ages I was a student). He once snapped at a friend. "No, life's far better now. No-one's trying to kill me!"

The letters columns of every local newspaper are filled with retired men moaning that modern life is rubbish and everything was so much better when they were a lad.
Why don't women moan like this? Do they tell their husbands to shut up, stop boring them, and write to the papers instead?

A friend once lent me a copy of CS Lewis's "The Screwtape Letters", just as a book to read. It was a pristine 1st edition in its original cover and signed by the author in 1942. I hardly dared touch it never mind drink coffee in the same room. I had to do some explaining to the owner.

Obviously that's a ridiculous comparison, but it's entirely Badenoch's fault for bringing it into play by promising to get rid of people without considering how deportation would work. Anyone with a brain or a sense of decency would have steered well clear of the stupid & callous response she gave.

The question is only irrelevant if she doesn't expect to win, or to be taken seriously. It's like a school-leaver saying they'll be earning £150k a year in 12 months and insisting it's irrelevant to ask how.