Tom Watson doesn’t get a lot of love on here. But he was, for a decent time, Deputy Leader of the Opposition, and an MP for 20 years. Wikipedia barely mentions his involvement in Operation Midland. T… (View Post)

How about neither. NZ maintains the honours system (Jacinda Ardern was just “Damed”) and it is entirely uncontroversial, at least in terms of who is recognized. The main recipients tends to be retire… (View Post)

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)