The culture war has been distinctly one-sided for years now. This stuff about ultra-libs comes from an inability to accept that Trump is pretty much as bad as the left expected him to be, from freein… (View Post)

Quite right. Service charges increasingly take the piss, the economics are irrational, it appropriates what was formerly a return to labour (tipping) to capital, and introduces unnecessary uncertaint… (View Post)

I think parts of rural Scotland really are the ultimate core of the Conservative party. You can't imagine some of the people you come across in Aberdeenshire, Moray, Perthshire, the Borders voti… (View Post)

Perhaps Arctic charr? Left behind by a changing (political) climate, unable to migrate down the rivers like their forebears. "The most variable vertebrate on Earth" - fits. (View Post)

Fascinating responses from you, rcs and Carnyx. PB at its best, and I suppose the Trump administration is going to expose just how much interesting and essential work is going on across government an… (View Post)