Looking back, aged 18, I think I saw university as essentially a prize for having done well at school, and didn't really want that prize to be 'lots more work', certainly not 'lot… (View Post)

Free bus passes for pensioners are something of a freebie for the state though. The services would run anyway - we may as well fill them up with pensioners. Finger in the air: 75% fall into the categ… (View Post)

Is that really what the picture looks like? A massive disembodied head floating in a sea of red? Can artists not just paint a normal picture anymore? (View Post)

I was talking about this yesterday. Britain just seems a much, much less violent place than it used to be. Now partly this might be because I'm a 49 year old man and frequent much less the types… (View Post)

He was editor of the Guardian, man! (View Post)