We went to Lyme Regis for exactly that reason - Junior had learnt about Mary Anning at school. He was surprisingly interested by the little independent fossil museum in LR, and you can buy a fossil f… (View Post)

You say “Tory lean”, I say “split left and batshit electoral system”. Lab+LD+Green comfortably outpaces the Tories. Not every time, but much more often than not. Were it not for FPTP we would have se… (View Post)

The Orbit remix is indeed superb. And Madonna's overall best album, unsurprisingly, is the one that was produced by William Orbit. (View Post)

It wasn't. Certainly the screens on the CPC (Amstrad's first computer range, before the PCW) were TV-grade displays, not monitor-grade displays. It was the CPC that started the 3-inch thing… (View Post)

Conspiracy theory: Sunak said that expecting it to be leaked. Possibly even deliberately leaking it. The selectorate for this contest largely live in Tunbridge Wells and not Manchester. A candidate w… (View Post)