The old aren't as rich as PB makes them out to be, either. Many are dirt-poor, cold, sick and living in crappy rented homes. They've struggled on low pay all their lives, having left school… (View Post)

Hope you had the decency to ask "Howzat?' (View Post)

Actually it's the old nature vs nurture dilemma. We'd have to find @Dura_Ace's long-lost identical twin brother to reach a tentative conclusion about genetics. (View Post)

I dispute the idea, implicit in many comments on here, that the principal aim of a senior cabinet minister must be to challenge and supplant the PM, and they should seize the opportunity to do so whe… (View Post)

Here's a case in point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roquebrune-Cap-Martin You couldn't wish to find a pleasanter, organic, old-world village on the Mediterranean. It's where Corbusie… (View Post)