Beautiful morning in Manchester. First day this year I've been into the offuce without a coat or hoody. My daughters' cricket team had their first match of the season on Monday. This time l… (View Post)

I'm a mild man in many respect, but I would quite happily introduce the death penalty for graffiti. I'd pull the lever myself. Murder is sometimes defensible; graffiti, never. It's onl… (View Post)

IME there are still plenty in government who view the North as some distant benighted wasteland whose inhabitants are perhaps to be pitied but who can't really be expected to perform any higher … (View Post)

FPT: I know. Not least, given my later point, because this almost certainly falls under the category of 'unnecessary tat manufactured in China' (it may not be - I don't know). And it d… (View Post)

I know there's more to it than this. But my mental image of goods from China is the absolute most unneccesary tat of western culture - singing Christmas trees, things to wedge between your toes,… (View Post)