Good work breaking the pattern...that is no mean feat as the stats show (View Post)

I grew up in a working class family. My mother was a butcher and my dad a welder. I went to university, got a PhD, now I am a senior lecturer (in the #1 programme in my field) and assiciate dean at a… (View Post)

It seems to me conservative voters across the board spend the most of their time trying to convince themselves reality isn't reality. The electorate has broadly given up on the conservative brand, th… (View Post)

[Dinner in the officers' mess. The captain is inebriated, but asks apparently seriously] Capt. Jack Aubrey : Do you see those two weevils doctor? Dr. Stephen Maturin : I do. Capt. Jack Aubrey : Which… (View Post)

Prediction: spring election will be called when the HOL block rwanda legislation. Then leaving ECHR will be put in a manifesto as will brain dead tax cuts. The tories do not want to go to an autumn G… (View Post)