I'm only 49, but I'm sceptical there was ever a golden period of competent politicians. Politics is incredibly difficult and required mastery of impossible swathes of detail. We award yeste… (View Post)

To be fair to HYUFD, I think that is his point - that this board isn't representative - implicitly (?) for the reasons you set out. Not only is this site something of a middle class bubble (thou… (View Post)

The problem with not making a fuss is that nobody notices you not making a fuss about things. See also: International Men's Day. (View Post)

Oh do behave HYUFD. As it happens, there isn't a Gail's in Frodsham (I've just checked) but it's exactly the sort of place you'd expect to find one. The nearest Gail's i… (View Post)

My first political memory was seeing Michael Foot's wife knocked over by a low branch while standing a moving open-topped bus in Ipswich in 1983. I think. When I was at uni, my politics course w… (View Post)