This is an excellent piece on the moral ambition behind Thatcherism and how it has utterly failed, creating a class of self-entitled boomers who, on average, take far more than they ever put into the… (View Post)

I am in New York. The pubs are mostly crap. NZ did not get pubs right because of low density development. Pubs need a critical mass of local population who can stumble home. (View Post)

Coincidentally I am reading (I tend to have about ten books “on the go”) a true crime thing about some gay killer in the 80s who picked up a victim at Marie’s Crisis. Seems like the piano thing has b… (View Post)

Not if @Casino has anything to do with it. He will tell them about his heroic dump at Waterloo and urge them to think again. (View Post)

Driver is an idiot. I’m not sure what a “normal” person is, but the idea that travelling and working in Europe makes you abnormal, and, by extension, not worthy of consideration, is utterly cretinous. (View Post)