Well, the hotel staff have been round and put all the chairs around the swimming pool on their sides and turned all the tables upside down. So at least we’re now hurricane-proof…. (View Post)

Nothing good was ever going to come of that man achieving the top office, as was obvious to anyone really watching, decades in advance. (View Post)

The MPs should try sharing the rules they impose on British local government? (View Post)

Obscure fact of the day: in two hundred years the population of the larger of the principal British Isles has more than quadrupled whereas the population of the lesser is unchanged. (View Post)

Yes, in terms of the internal workings, the coalition is probably a rare - possibly the only - relatively recent example. The advantage of a deliberative process where those involved started by havin… (View Post)