I'd like to agree, but I'm not so optimistic. I think they'll have created a country where enough people are public sector workers, benefit junkies or other layabouts so that they can get 20% of the … (View Post)

Not surprising, given that Starmer headed one quango and Reeves worked at another. They're also actively and energetically supporting the asphyxiation of our economy. Their first big action will be t… (View Post)

I made my first political projection and indeed my first political bet around that age. I bet £50 that the first Gulf War would take less than a year against a school friend who was sure it would las… (View Post)

Hopefully that's just a start to scrapping the whole misbegotten project. Building an absurdly expensive railway from somewhere near central Birmingham without any real links to a desolate part of we… (View Post)

Edam is a very nice small town even if you aren't obsessed by their cheese (though as you can imagine it figures somewhat obsessively there) and it's a 90 min or so flat cycle ride away from Amsterda… (View Post)