It feels like we're living in a poorly written soap. Neither the Anne-Widdecombe-gets-murdered storyline nor the Farage-calls-a-needless-byelection-and-loses-to-Binface storyline are remotely be… (View Post)

And here we have the proboem with devolution. In principle, hurray for local democratic control over stuff. In practice, this meams a stronger-than-I'm-comfortable-with chance of a nutter from t… (View Post)

This is nothing new, sadly, though I had hoped we had moved beyond it. I often marvel at the extent to which architects of social housing appear to hate the concept of those houses' occupants be… (View Post)

In apolitical news, tgere is an absolutely blood red sun over South Manchester. The moors are on fure,and the smoke is turning the aky and the light all sorts of improbable colours. I can't prop… (View Post)

My memory of him - and, to be fair he was onky 11, but still - is that he wasn't the best at distinguishing reality from fantasy. (View Post)