“Bistro” is Russian for ‘quickly’, and those fast (for the time) food restaurants in Paris were created during the Russian occupation and got their name from the Russian soldiers’ habit of shouting ‘… (View Post)

You could say the same about any sort of rules, from speed limits through laws against murder. That it is utopian idealism to expect that everyone will follow every rule isn’t an argument for not hav… (View Post)

I did well laying a departure in 2025 a year back; despite the government's travails it seemed inconceivable that one of Labour's few election-winners would be forced out so soon after a ma… (View Post)

That’s where my brother’s youngest ended up, for the reasons set out above, and now he’s met an Essex girl whose occupation is giving women false eyelashes, she’s pregnant, and within a few weeks I w… (View Post)

If the May local elections come out like that, very many voters will be getting a few years to enjoy Reform controlled councils before the next GE comes along, not to mention what might happen in Sco… (View Post)