One thing people forget is for a long time it looked as if the Soviets were winning the Cold War. Moscow and Leningrad (St Petersburg) were as prosperous as any Western city (and everywhere else was … (View Post)

OT Michael Portillo has not one but two programmes about trains on BBC2 tonight. A repeat at 6.30 and a new series at 8pm. Railway enthusiast Michael Portillo follows the route of the pioneering Stoc… (View Post)

No call to reduce the generosity of NHS pensions? (View Post)

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)