The Healey interview shows to me the current state of our public sector at its extremes. We have 17 frigates and destroyers. None of them, none, were ready for sea. A week of extraordinary work got D… (View Post)

Talking of reading I am about to do something that I can't remember doing for a long time other than for sports events. I am going to watch Masterchef, the Professionals final "live" o… (View Post)

Yeah, I'm exactly the same. But I feel ambivalent about it. I enjoy the snappy points on PB and the way the arguments develop with many informed contributions but I can't help lamenting how… (View Post)

Have they not been suffering drought for some years now? This should be welcome. (View Post)

She's right and she's wrong. She's right we should be doing it, that it was moronic to ever stop doing it, that it will benefit us in the medium term. She's wrong that it will mak… (View Post)