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My experience is local government more than national but the rationale is just the same. How could you trust a council officer if there was even a possibility he was attending monthly meetings for yo… (View Post)

My town Sedbergh is twinned with Zrece in Slovenia. Just about every time we take a group over we take them to Frankolovo. Very hard for the teenagers who go skiing, hard for me and I've been maybe f… (View Post)

Mrs Thatcher thought reuniting the two Germanys would be a catastrophe. She would have been happy for East Germany to have joined the EC and let time be the leveller. She fell out with Helmut Kohl ov… (View Post)

Any incoming UK government will have to do the same. The lesson of Sue Gray is horrific. And Rachel Reeves's husband is head of DEFRA. How could anyone trust him even if he wasn't married to the wors… (View Post)

"Research has shown that the United Kingdom spends more of its time in making partisan unfavourable comparisons between itself and other selectively chosen comparator countries than any other co… (View Post)