Sorry to hear that. Nothing much to say except dementia is an absolute bastard. There's no good way to manage it, just lots of bad ones. (View Post)

I've managed to go a good twenty years without anyone I love dying or getting seriously ill or really having to be worried about in any way. But I am grimly aware of my luck and that filial resp… (View Post)

Refers to a meal. American joke books from the 1960s featured a surprising amount in my childhood, so I'm quite aware of it. (View Post)

Similarly the "it says that but it doesn't mean it" argument made about Ever Closer Union. (View Post)

Well it rather depends on what the centre ground is. I'd argue the centre ground of the electorate is what we might consider broadly right wing on culture and immigration, and broadly left wing … (View Post)