The call to prayer in the coffee lounge at Dubai airport at 3am is rather unsettling in between two 12-hour flights. (View Post)

Working in the garden this evening I heard a single church bell tolling for the Duke - an unexpectedly moving event. In spite of being irreligious I've missed the bells this past year and that p… (View Post)

Unprompted? Or did you offer him a multiple choice in which FP was the most complimentary option? Such fine distinctions matter when a reputation is as fragile as Williamson's. (View Post)

Tories need to found a Starmer Preservation Society before it's too late. Almost anyone would do better. You have been warned. (View Post)

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)