I agree with your theory. But I’d also say that Labour tactics on this issue have been hamfisted. (View Post)

I’m amazed at how many on here are privately educated. But I invariably found, working in the UK, that I was one of the few non-privately educated. (View Post)

In NZ you can go a bit more a la carte. I started doing English Literature, and ended effectively doing a PPE. I did an undergraduate business degree at the same time, another slightly unusual artefa… (View Post)

The Radetsky March by Joseph Roth is superb. People rave about The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil, but I haven’t read it yet. (View Post)

Zweig stayed in Bath for a few months before decamping to Brazil. There’s a dusty plaque to him in a forgotten corner of the Mendips. (View Post)