Perhaps the nineteenth century Disclosure and Barring Service wasn't very efficient? Or maybe convictions were considered spent after release from custody? Nowadays a relatively short prison sen… (View Post)

We'd give him the Cranmer treatment. There's still a cross in the tarmac outside Balliol marking the ideal spot. (View Post)

Also worth recalling that back in Lord Peter's day the government decided to abandon the Two-Minute Silence on Armistice Day in favour of a national remembrance event on the closest Sunday inste… (View Post)

Struggling to see any 'actual food' there. (View Post)

I've never understood the cosy assumption that every person of recent migrant descent should welcome more immigration just because. It's the poor inner urban areas where they mainly live th… (View Post)