My grandfather was born in 1885. By the time he died aged 89 he'd seen the advent of motor cars, aeroplanes, trench warfare, telephones, cinema, radio, television, atom bombs, space rockets and … (View Post)

Starmer had himself photographed instinctively genuflecting before the sort of people who set fire to police vans. The recently-discovered union flags are a hopeless attempt at damage control. (View Post)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_language_is_a_dialect_with_an_army_and_navy (View Post)

I don't think it's in the Tories' interest to win Hartlepool if it would stampede Labour into finding someone better than Starmer. Far better to let him limp on, bloodied and bowed, un… (View Post)

"People of colour" is eerily reminiscent of "person of the Hebrew persuasion" and the slimy, antisemitic circumlocutions of ChesterBelloc and their inter-war contemporaries. (View Post)