As noted upthread, he ought to have martyred himself on Sunak’s wanton destruction of HS2. (View Post)

Banning cigarettes via some kind of intrusive age check mechanism. Just ugh, Britain. The country seems full of curtain-twitching killjoys. (View Post)

I see the Lib Dems even voted for the progressive ban. So much for them. (View Post)

Jacinda Ardern pioneered this legislation in NZ of course, but her government was thankfully ejected and the law has been scrapped. Sadly it’s been noticed by do-gooders at the MoH and eagerly picked… (View Post)

She’s quite right. But she, and I, are decidedly out of temper with the times. People want to be mollycoddled, and they want to see other people suffer privation, as we saw during the pandemic. (View Post)