Yes! This is a bugbear of mine, but I've never heard anyone else express it, to the point where I've assumed my supposition that 'try to' is a lamentable mangling of the language … (View Post)

It's not necessarily to Kemi's advantage to see Starmer removed and replaced by someone a) better at politics and/or b) more left wing. Much better to let Starmer hobble on, crippled. (View Post)

You did, however, get there, what, 40 years ago, when it was possible to buy a house. My objection to London is not that it is crime ridden or full of foreigners, but that, even with my middle class … (View Post)

My wife and I both did four days a week. This absolutely was not due to any feminism on my part, or any commitment to equality, but rather that I didn't want to miss out on bringing the kids up.… (View Post)

Not the children of the top 5% - just the top 5% academically. Doing academia for academia's sake, for free. If anyone else wants to join them and pay for it, fine. But also, for the rest, there… (View Post)