I do hope so. He could become Lord Patterson, thereby replicating the Peter Carington/Lord Carrington anomaly of four decades ago and bringing comfort to those who can never quite get his name right. (View Post)

About 40 years ago I was driving up The Mall and stopped at a red light. David Steel crossed in front of me. Suddenly he was surrounded by a party of excited schoolgirls. The lights turned green and … (View Post)

Which would you prefer - a £50k salary with a £10m expense account, or the other way round? (View Post)

Roundhead vs Cavalier. Ye Olde English psychodrama never went away. (View Post)

I can only think of one way in which the Conservatives might contrive to lose OB&S - trying to exploit their unassailable majority by parachuting in an unsympathetic non-local candidate, splittin… (View Post)