I do find the anti-LTN position in Edinburgh bizarre - they must depend on the student and Green-but-voting-LD-at-Westminster vote to some extent. Likewise in St Andrews. (View Post)

BigG, 'lifeboat-clinging' is a very common metaphor, and in that wording quite clearly refers to shipwrecks with ship's lifeboats, think Titanic. Not least because you couldn't cl… (View Post)

In any case, some of the Tories and certainly their fellow-travellers are more in a RNLI-sinking mood of late, thanks to the RNLI's aforesaid sterling work. So lifeboat-clinging, whether to the … (View Post)

Got stuck for a moment on "the deceased did not send texts, presumably because of his literacy problems". Understatement of the century, unless Apple have introduced an Iouija model, I was … (View Post)

THanks - I stand corrected. Still think the current loans system is unsound. (View Post)