In our local (small) supermarket they have put the self-serve tills directly between the manned tills and the door. So people walk past the manned tills, fiddle mildly convincingly with the self-serv… (View Post)

From "hug a husky" to "bump off a bully". Pretty much the trajectory of the Conservative Party since 2010. (View Post)

ULEZ or not, the Tories should be hoping Sadiq Khan retains the mayoralty. Months of blithering incompetence and dogwhistle prejudice from Mayor Susan Hall would not do good things for the image of t… (View Post)

I find the next GE incredibly difficult to call. On the one hand: massive Labour swing implied by the polls. On the other: this is going to be the least UNS-y election I can remember. We have the Red… (View Post)

If you want to be depressed about the state of Britain, click on the links. (The page is about 20 years old, I think.) The German mittelstands are by and large still trading. So are the Japanese fami… (View Post)