Yay - a Wales thread. As usual there are long-term trends (= socio-economics) and short-term fluctuations (= politics) to weigh up. The NE Wales red wall has been slowly trending Tory for decades as … (View Post)

We're slowly edging towards Samuel Butler's Erewhon - a dystopia in which illness is considered to be a crime but criminality is regarded as a temporary, treatable indisposition. (View Post)

100 years ago my grandfather raised 8 children in a 3-bedroom terrace house on a railwayman's wage. My other grandfather did likewise on a steelworker's wage. It would take a big book to explain all … (View Post)

Why not dust down the Donate button while you're at it? Always happy to toss the bums a dime. (View Post)

There's a Graham Greene short story about a housemaster who had to tell a boy that his father was dead. "What happened?" asked the boy. "He was hit ... by a pig ... falling from a balc… (View Post)