Umberto Eco, the Italian semiotician and philosopher, provided a very helpful guide to the fourteen characteristics of Fascism. Here's the link... https://www.openculture.com/2016/11/umberto-eco… (View Post)

(FWIW, you can count me in!) (View Post)

Matt is a genius. Future generations of historians will pore over his work for insights into the British way of life from the 1990s to the 2020s. (View Post)

It's like the good old days of Tory Sleaze. Things like this cut through far more than witterings about comparative tax thresholds. (And PtP moved to Gloucestershire ... well I never! Always had… (View Post)

In 1983 Frank Hooley, MP for Sheffield Healey, was deselected by Labour and so ran in Stratford on Avon in order to get his redundancy payment, but he wasn't opposing a sitting MP there. (View Post)