A long long time ago I was an illicit sub-tenant in someone else's flat and therefore kept my name off the electoral register to deflect suspicion. But when a general election came along I felt … (View Post)

Could be re-reading, I suppose. (View Post)

There's almost certainly a letter to the Spectator dated 1835 whingeing about the new-fangled railway from Birmingham stopping at a cow patch near Camden Town instead of proceeding all the way t… (View Post)

The BBC's quandary would be eased if they could find another so-called 'talent' prepared to tweet a diametrically opposite opinion to Lineker. Then they could demonstrate the 'bal… (View Post)

ISTR Jeremy Thorpe ridiculed in the 1970s after telling an interviewer how he liked to start his day with a Brandenburg Concerto. Later we discovered how he really liked to start his day. He should h… (View Post)