You've been to Manchester? You should have said - I'd have given you a tour! I'd say the North does very much exist - though like all psychogeography it is very hard to pin down. Its d… (View Post)

The Armando Ianucci joke Jim the Lurker refers to is from 'People Like Us' - the lawyer episode, I think. It has stuck with me for years - one of my favourite jokes the telly has given me -… (View Post)

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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)