I have a theory that John Reid invented the phrase 'not fit for purpose' in his description of the Home Office. I'd never heard it before. It's now everywhere. (View Post)

Yes, agreed. While Hancock is something of a pantomime villain in all this - with, it must be said, SKS baying for more all the time - it must be conceded that these are democratic politicians respon… (View Post)

I was scared. Not of the disease, but by the sudden totalitarian dystopia into which we had suddenly been thrust, in which police, who apparently had no clearer an idea of the rules than anyone else,… (View Post)

Yes, granted. Possibly also Callaghan. I'm actually only thinking back as far as Thatcher. My first memory of politics is the 1983 general election - specifically seeing Michael Foot's wife… (View Post)

Thank God for that. (Although this is a very short term complaint - less than 12 hours ago we were discussing the implosion of the western world's financial system.) We spent five years doing th… (View Post)