I'll share some more specific thoughts on it later, but please do have a look if you can.
It was an extremely DIY endeavour - lots of late nights spent wrangling charts, editing each other's prose, even learning how to build a website from scratch - so I hope it sparks plenty of debate!

He’s had a cracking half

Of course much of this was devolved out to the East India Company which only managed to administer it by virtue of becoming the biggest corporation in the world and terrible cruelty to the people they oversaw. Is this a clue as to their preferred direction?

(If I were writing British politics as an episode of The West Wing, I'd have Starmer activate the "Hail Mary" option of saying he'll rejoin the EU in a second term. Re-polarise the electorate along Brexit lines and hope the shifts in demographics/material reality force a winning coalition.)

I have a friend who claims that he ordered a Dry Martini in a bar in Germany and was handed three of them

Harveys Old Ale