Utter neocon nonsense from UPB and the Torygraph. How does 'tax and spend' tank the pound? Spend and not tax (à la Truss) would tank the pound; tax and spend has not tanked the euro. (View Post)

Purcell, yes; Pepys - great diaries, but no. (View Post)

Although @A_View_From_Cumbria5 makes a valid general point about public school education allowing numpties to get into positions of power and influence way beyond their abilities. (View Post)

I'm not even going there. Mrs. P's weekly search history audit is hanging over me. (View Post)

FPT: More to the point it's Shakespeare's birthday*. An Englishman we can all be proud of. Benpointer's idosyncratic list of greatest English men and women, in no particular order: Wil… (View Post)