I'm apathetic about whether NI is in the UK, but I'm not apathetic about wasting £15 billion/year every year - more than 2p on income tax - on it. Better off out. (View Post)

Also the "Unionist" in the Conservative and Unionist Party is a historical relic, from the days when it absorbed the Liberal Unionist party, just as they were not very conservative when the… (View Post)

I had a black dinner lady at school who often wore a golliwog apron and never connected it with racism. The fact is we are now absurdly over-sensitive to trivialities because somebody kicks up a stor… (View Post)

It shows that Australian journalists (like our own) think that Twittermobs are a sample of public opinion, rather than a rancid, fetid, stinking distortion of it. A friend is the editor of a weekly n… (View Post)

I like the quote at the end - America at its best: “We are the arsenal of democracy and always will be, as far as I’m concerned.” (View Post)