Drinking heavily once a month and alcoholic are quite different things. We do drink a fair amount in the UK but aiui we're a fair bit lower than in the mid-2000s, which was the high point (or lo… (View Post)

Just caught up on the gist of the speech. Wow. Pedicabs, vaping and forcing criminals to attend sentencing. Parish pump stuff. So parochial; embarrassing for country that aspires to be a global leade… (View Post)

The nation is being brought back together again through a shared dislike for the current government. Agree that the last thing we need to is revisit the national trauma of Brexit. (View Post)

There will be some interesting Tory seats where Labour were once competitive but supplanted by SNP, such as Dumfries and Galloway. The Scottish results will be especially fascinating at the next GE. (View Post)

The barely-disguised glee this has given Jones and his like really show how near the surface antisemitism has long been on the far left for years. It’s been fomented in the NUS, the BDS movement as a… (View Post)