I think it's simpler than that. The Tories ain't ever winning again. Far too many Tories confuse 'once upon a time the Tories got vote shares of 40%+' with 'once upon a time … (View Post)

I know you shouldn't overanalyse a joke, but that one always vexed me: a foreskin stays pretty much the same size. It is the penis contained therein which grows and shrinks. (View Post)

Anyway: a drunken ramble. My algorithm has given me the once-favourite song* of a once-friend of mine and I am missing him intensely. He was the coolest kid in school, in retrospect - but unlike the … (View Post)

But to go back to Eagles' original question - why was there a riot about the murderer from Sudan but not the murderer from NI: the riots tend not to be about the crime itself, but about the poli… (View Post)

Well, effectively it is, because that’s what we have. It might be policy to wish it were otherwise, because government can’t think of a nice way of stopping it. If we were in a tank with water levels… (View Post)