WRT the thread header, can I suggest it might be profitable to remember the Beaconsfield by election of 1983? The Tories were very unpopular, and the Liberals – with the enthusiastic support of the S… (View Post)

Thank you! The phrase "slide sideways with emphasis" is going straight into my phrasebook! (View Post)

Apropos nothing in particular, a friend of mine has been very active in the Carney campaign for the Canadian Liberal Party leadership campaign. The thing that has impressed him (and his colleagues ) … (View Post)

In view of its role in promoting pro-Moscow propaganda, the name Z would fit in rather neatly with the Russian military operations in Ukraine (View Post)

Russian spy ring found in Great Yarmouth. And the MP for Great Yarmouth is..... Makes you fink, dunnit? (View Post)