Ironically since partygate brought him down, by all accounts Boris is rubbish at parties, being neither gregarious nor coordinated. Downing Street Wine-time Fridays took place after Boris had left fo… (View Post)

A more sinister example is the fate of Jews in Nazi-occupied France and Holland. A quarter of French Jews were killed, three quarters of Dutch Jews, about the same as in Germany itself. The peacetime… (View Post)

Of course it does. It lazily tots up the full fare of each free trip, without considering that many journeys would simply not have been made. Another hazard of taking data collected for one purpose a… (View Post)

Cameron was fresh off almost losing Sindyref. Cameron believed in negative campaigning which landed him in Downing Street and saved Scotland (and saw off AV). Looked at from the outside, Cameron did … (View Post)

Yes Minister - Reducing the Figures https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMCOv5ekRkA ETA that's not the clip I was looking for but it's late, bordering on early! (View Post)