Lammy is a Harvard-educated lawyer who practised law in America. He should have been left at the Foreign Office given the importance and fragility of our trans-Atlantic relationships. Although at fir… (View Post)

OT according to Countdown, today is the anniversary of Charles Darwin reaching the Galapagos Islands and making a watercolour sketch of a table and tall glass of gin or lager. (View Post)

I suspect there were any number of people who thought they were besties with Epstein. I doubt it was reciprocated. Look at the various scandals Mandelson has been involved him, such as being on the y… (View Post)

Speaking as a pedestrian, I'd rather face an ebike with the driver looking where he is going than cyclists who might be looking at the ground if pedalling hard, who might stop at the crossing, or not… (View Post)

Drunks could be actively dangerous on ships, especially in those days when they could not radio for assistance. (View Post)