Whenever I ask myself the mystifying question of why the Conservatives, the natural governing party for centuries, dissolved into civil war and swung so violently to the nationalist right, I think that in some mysterious way it goes back to the trauma of Margaret's defeat.
To save the party political point-scoring for a later day – one that would come soon enough, as there were plenty of awkward questions for the Conservatives to answer – and make a show of unity when national security was threatened.
We should ask new questions of the conservative religious right too, because the matter is not merely about segregating adult content from the rest of the web, nor is it about creating more parental power.
"Well, that's how it goes in the Supreme Court, you're peppered with questions," he said of the conservatives justices who pressed him.
To our knowledge this is the first systematic review addressing the question of the effectiveness of conservative interventions for incontinence in this population, resident at home.
There are also serious questions about how much of the Conservatives' media and technology strategy remains intact following the political horse trading with the Liberal Democrats needed to get the keys to No 10.
Toobin, who was at the hearings, offers an explanation: When Don Verrilli, the Solicitor General, got up to defend the law he was met by this absolute torrent of hostile questions from the conservatives on the Court, thereby shattering all my own expectations about how this case was going to go and clearly indicating, unless I'm proven dramatically wrong, the direction the court was going….
This goes to the heart of the question: why do the Conservatives (alongside Ukip and the BNP) feel it necessary to repeal the HRA when there is no shortage of models for a UK bill of rights that leaves the HRA intact or incorporates it wholesale?
QUESTION FROM IVAN: If one of the conservatives on the bench now should leave, how would Obama be able to get any nomination through?
The question of how conservative politics could survive in the face of a resurgent Labor party was again raised.
