Which brings us back to the thread header, my absolute favourite moment of Kelsey Grammer is as Sideshow Bob from the Simpsons: "You want the truth? You can't handle the truth! No truth-han… (View Post)

Simple: people who don't trust Labour. My view is that the Tory vote is almost entirely dependent on how scary people find Labour. Clearly Starmer is much less scary than Corbyn, but not entirel… (View Post)

Counter-example: the Wedding Present album Take Fountain. After four or five albums in the late 80s and early 90s (and 12 singles in 1992 alone), the Wedding Present dissolves into side projects in t… (View Post)

I don't recall whether this was controversial or seen as a statement of the obvious, but I recall about three years ago there was a book called 'hand, heart, head' - the argument of wh… (View Post)

Think of this another way. Why are care workers paid so little? Because we can easily import people to work in care from abroad. Until we change that, care workers will continue to get paid very litt… (View Post)