About to pick oldest up from her practice DoE silver expedition. She is lovely 99% of the time but the two things she deals poorly with are heat and lack of sleep. I am nervous. Could be a bumpy few … (View Post)

I expect you have polling to back that up, but it doesn't strike me as instinctively obvious that she'd go down well in the red wall - middle class lefties seem to like her, but I'm re… (View Post)

And the right to offend is quite important. (View Post)

I don't see why backers of other parties should easily transfer to the greens. They're quite extreme. (View Post)

A vignette from today: middle daughter is an adequate pianist - currently working on grade 3. Her piano teacher entered her into a music festival in Cheshire. We arrived at the allotted time for Year… (View Post)