I'd take issue with the word 'incumbent' to describe Donald Trump. There are no incumbents in a primary race and Tomorrow Is Another Day (as they say in the South). (View Post)

But the calendar matters. It's how we try to understand the ineffable passage of time. When Donne wrote "'Tis the year's midnight, and it is the day's" he was writing on… (View Post)

7pm is unfashionably early for a division with the Government's survival at stake. Such events were traditionally held at 10pm after refreshment had been taken and were all the better for it. (View Post)

I've no doubt it's best appreciated from a moving train. But I'd occasionally stop there for R&R after 90 minutes battling my way out of central London - a practice now safely cons… (View Post)

Scratchwood was perched on the very pinnacle of 1950s nomenclature. We shall remember it. (View Post)