He was recruited by his neighbour Emily Thornberry and made a Life Peer in 1998, sitting on the Labour benches. He is an activist for gay and LBGT rights, which is where he just might hope to influen… (View Post)

I suspect that Starmer is self-righteous and not a good listener and his advisors don't like to challenge him. It also seems that he feels entitled. (View Post)

I'm old too. I remember going to my great grandmother's 90th birthday party in 1950. She was fiercely Irish with a shillelagh on the wall and played the fiddle. She was born in 1860. She wa… (View Post)

Vic is wearing that dress! (View Post)

Yes - he's warmed up. Very stilted to start with but motoring now. I liked his Lake District story. (View Post)