He's behind you! (View Post)

She is increasingly looking like a dud, but the Tories have to stick with Badenoch for at least a year. It's not as if there aren't any elections looming so poor polling is not really an is… (View Post)

Yes, but the European market is much more valuable and interesting than the Russian one to the Chinese. Canny of Ukraine to cosy up to China. America is increasingly likely to abandon Ukraine and nee… (View Post)

It does seem a particularly poor time for our universities to be threatened with bankruptcy and mass redundancies. I shouldn't think there are a lot of spare places for academic refugees from Am… (View Post)

I don't think anyone would use that language now (if indeed they ever would) but I can imagine similar, perhaps fruitier language about Spode, from any part of Britain. (View Post)