I dispute the idea, implicit in many comments on here, that the principal aim of a senior cabinet minister must be to challenge and supplant the PM, and they should seize the opportunity to do so whe… (View Post)

Here's a case in point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roquebrune-Cap-Martin You couldn't wish to find a pleasanter, organic, old-world village on the Mediterranean. It's where Corbusie… (View Post)

The issue of human rights tends to go round and round in circles like the debate between free will and determination. There is no conceivable solution that could actually "solve" the proble… (View Post)

Was thinking of visiting Kelmscott this weekend. The Society of Antiquaries of London have just spent £6m doing it up and I thought I might contribute a few quid to the cause. But their website asser… (View Post)

At my boys' grammar school the only non-teaching member of staff was the headmaster's secretary, aka the "school sec". If a visitor showed up looking bewildered they would be redi… (View Post)