I think someone on here recommended The Fall of Boris Johnson by Sebastian Payne. I’m afraid it’s not very good, simply a (sympathetic) day by day account that attributes his fall to badly judged cir… (View Post)

The lack of an obvious name is kind of a tell. It’s a gerrymandered, artificial idea. As you say, the attitude toward Swindon is political and cultural. It’s a new town plonked in the middle of an un… (View Post)

The government has buggered it all up again, with Treasury-inspired gibberish on the supposed optimal size of a regional unit. Late Soviet Britain strikes once more. Swindon is part of Wiltshire, whe… (View Post)

I was thinking of Wessex as Hampshire, Wiltshire and Dorset; and West Country as Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, and Greater Bristol. (Gloucestershire I put into the West Mids, which obviously wouldn’t be… (View Post)

David Walliams is widely known as a creepy, sick fuck. Open secret for years and years. His kid’s books suck, too. (View Post)