The Venn diagram of local newspaper website commenters, and people who fulminate about 20mph limits, is pretty much a perfect circle. It's basically Boomer Central. YouGov polling in Oxford has … (View Post)

I'm absolutely with you on this. Mrs Capitano had enormous trouble trying to breast-feed. The advice was "oh, keep trying, it'll come eventually. Here, try this pump. Here, try this te… (View Post)

Not that I need to encourage any cyclist to succumb to n+1, but my solution for cycling in France is to have a really good folding bike. In my case that's a Bike Friday New World Tourist, but th… (View Post)

Flanner is right, though, the demographics have shifted against the Conservatives. Places like London and Oxford are lost to the Tories for the foreseeable future and no one really disputes that. It&… (View Post)

Cherwell District Council has just become a minority Conservative administration after all manner of unseemly shenanigans on the part of the local Labour party, who refused to form a coalition with t… (View Post)