I'm torn between Badenoch and Cleverly. Cleverly is on paper the best candidate (affable, non-alienating) - he will get a hearing, but it might be a hearing which concludes "Thanks, but sti… (View Post)

The ridicule is not the exercise but the obsession with kit. I get just as much exercise on my £700 touring bike and my shorts and t-shirts as my mate on his £10000 bike and £1000+ of kit and accesso… (View Post)

Did you really? I'm reassured. I rarely feel so moved by confectionery that I feel the need to record the issue on a politics blog, but this really did strike me as an unnaturally good Eccles Ca… (View Post)

Wait - there's a train from Aberystwyth to Holyhead? (View Post)

Have you ever read A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor, who walked from Rotterdam to, I think, Istanbul in, I think, 1933? It's mainly a travel book. But it's also quite a fascinating c… (View Post)