I continue to defend the House of Lords, although it’s becoming increasingly difficult to do so. The practice of having any PM involvement in peerages needs to be scrapped asap. (View Post)

Boris’s honours list is bad, but not as bad as it could be. If I were Alok Sharma, who by all accounts did well in the COP20 role before being sacked by Rishi “don’t give a fuck about green issues” S… (View Post)

I regularly use “Cincinnati” as the butt of jokes to my all-American team. None seem to mind, although perhaps complaints are stacking up with HR and they just haven’t told me. The best thing about C… (View Post)

Whereas “Mark Francois” sounds like something Martin Amis would call a Francophobic Tory MP. (View Post)

Peterborough *should* be booming. Nice cathedral, cheapish property, convenient links to both London and Cambridge. It probably needs some redevelopment to get rid of ugly 60s/70s excrescence, and th… (View Post)