A friend of mine who was a BBC presenter called the result pretty well - on exactly that basis. Most of the 'talent' were firmly Remain, but he also spoke to the other staff - make-up, cant… (View Post)

Yebbut, 40 years ago it would have done. I'm not so much defending my own position as expressing bafflement that values of this have shifted so much in my lifetime without real comment. And in a… (View Post)

SOUTHport. Nothing bad ever happens in Stockport. It's like heaven, with a viaduct. On the 2011 riots - it was a bit of a mixed picture, as I recall? In London it started out with an ostensibly … (View Post)

Well I consider a suit at least two separate items of clothing! So, yeah, probably, never spent more than £70 or a jacket or a pair of suit trousers. But cumulatively, yes, over £100 on a suit. I hav… (View Post)

I don't think that's exactly right. Reform is (and I oversimplify massively) a party of the grumpy boomer yearning for the Conservative Party of the 1980s. The economics are Thatcherite, an… (View Post)