They are a pretty dull lot now, but the Liberal MPs of the 60s/70s were quite a crowd. Cyril, of course. But then there was Clement Freud, now an unmentionable. Colourful characters like John Pardoe … (View Post)

Peter Aldous MP (Waveney) just announced he is submitting a letter to the 1922. Beginning of something? (View Post)

They'd have said the latter, like the SNP. But no serious country can allow itself to be put at risk from continuous constitutional uncertainty. So, like the SNP, they should rightly be told to take … (View Post)

I've been told that South Georgia is actually much more impressive - from a wildlife spectacle POV - than the Antarctic itself. Any views? (View Post)

There's an argument that the Cameron/Clegg coalition was about as close as we've got to that happy state. The need to keep both sides happy (sort of) allowed Dave and Nick to sideline their own icono… (View Post)