My father was a carpenter but I tend to keep it to myself. Gruesome death nailed on, so to speak. (View Post)

Reminds me of the story about the foolish undergraduate who said to the university Chancellor "I wouldn't want to be 90" to which the Chancellor (Harold Macmillan) replied, "You won't … (View Post)

Corbynites dream of ousting Starmer, like the Livingstone coup against Andrew McIntosh at the GLC in 1981? (View Post)

Of course, some of those criticising the egregious troughing of Starmer and his henchwomen will be doing so from a Corbynite rather than Tory perspective. (View Post)

Here in mid-Warks we have street after street of scruffy suburban bungalows built in the 1960s. My modest proposal is to bulldoze them all and replace with five-storey neo-Georgian terraces instead. … (View Post)