I certainly recognise that. My grandmothers were the eldest and youngest of large families. In both cases the eldest were sent out to work so the family could afford to educate the youngest. One was … (View Post)

After yesterday’s shocker in the Guardian a much more balanced piece in the Observer: There is an ugly strain of leftwing thinking that posits that having Conservative values is not really compatible… (View Post)

There’s only one thing more unlikely than a Johnson return, and that’s a Truss return. (View Post)

There will be plenty more where that came from! They’re on an express liner (4 funnels - slower ships didn’t need that many furnaces) so would usually expect to cross in 6 days, not 7. (View Post)

Nasser said “The sun doesn’t set on the British Empire because god doesn’t trust the British in the dark”.. (View Post)