Off thread: Daughter #3 did the eleven plus today. We don't really expect her to pass. When her oldest sister did it passing was the preserve of the top 25%, now it's significantly harder. … (View Post)

Given that Labour' strategy has been utterly inept, probably not an appointee they'll miss. (View Post)

Seems unlikely. No attempt ao far to get the police to stop being so tediously woke seems to have worked. (View Post)

Sorry - in retrospect I should ha e cropped this better. In the background is the new inner Manchester (actually Salford) - dense flats - then coming forward you have a scrapyard, then some scrubby o… (View Post)

That's interesting, and I think more typical than me: I had one grandparent from each of London, Birmingham, Manchester and Edinburgh. A couple of generations before that and almost every region… (View Post)