Time will tell. You may be right. But don't expect the UK government to arrive mob-handed, in spite of incitement from Epping and a stirring precedent from Madrid. They're cleverer than tha… (View Post)

Gift of a grateful nation... (Memo to self: beware of nations bearing gifts.) (View Post)

If Labour intend to fight the next election waving shrouds they will lose, and deservedly so. (View Post)

I accept that BBC-bashing is like shooting fish in a barrel, but am I alone in believing that licence-payers' money is ill-used pumping the oxygen of publicity into ungrateful bastards like this… (View Post)

It's instructive to examine our consciences in this regard. I sent an email to a friend leaving for the Far East in mid-February, making light of the virus. Yet this is the only juncture at whic… (View Post)