Obviously I'm with the ob consensus that the triple lock is stupid, but I'm all in favour of a universal pension. Means testing the pension is a massive disincentive to saving. (View Post)

My expectation is that the number of secondary school pupils being driven to school is pretty small, and most of those are being driven by parents who are going that way anyway. Secondary school chil… (View Post)

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)