The best chance the Tories have is to select a leader who looks "prime ministerial" and is able to attract Reform-defectors who are queasy about the prospect of Nige in Downing Street. May … (View Post)

Many of the staff employed by the RSPB in the immediate postwar years were ex-services. They made for good reserve wardens. One of them "liberated" a set of naval binoculars from a U-Boat c… (View Post)

Consider him called out by me. The MAGA-fication of British politics is one self-inflicted disaster we really need to avoid. (View Post)

Ha. We have exactly the same issue. Some mornings the lawn looks like a WW1 battlefield. They are very determined, badgers. I keep thinking I have sealed off the garden (we already have a deer fence … (View Post)

I suppose poetry "translation" will hold up. But that's because it isn't really translation. It's writing a new poem based on an existing one. The heirs to Ezra Pound et al c… (View Post)