English is a totally pointless subject, at least the way it is taught now. You read a book or a play or a poem and then you kill any joy that was ever in it by "analysing" it to death. My E… (View Post)

Neither of these stories have the weight or heft to seriously damage Starmer in my view. Both demonstrate that our PM and several of his cabinet colleagues are not fit to run a bath but it is a part … (View Post)

I watched an episode of Yes Minster tonight. It really holds up, especially as Jim Hacker got better at the game and occasionally got the better of Sir Humphry. But it was a comedy, not a documentary. (View Post)

So, this is something we have done twice in roughly 30 years and the availability of Boris was an issue? Riiight. There are so many valid criticisms of the way that Boris ran his government I really … (View Post)

A cabinet meeting? He "blurted out" something to a cabinet meeting? That would be the highest civil authority in the governance of this country? This is just so ridiculous I don't know… (View Post)