And the Labour and LibDem votes are increasingly sensibly distributed for maximising their seat haul, with the Greens less so but only threatening to take Labour inner city seats rather than deliver … (View Post)

With the dog, five hours is my yardstick for stopping for the afternoon, and with the ferry to get to north island I’d be pushing it to get to Northumberland in that time. Last year I stopped over in… (View Post)

His politics about the colonies, and particularly India, were seen as decades past their time back then, he was seen as an aging dinosaur with unfashionable views, which probably contributed somewhat… (View Post)

Arguably it made more sense back then, when the US remained firmly committed to NATO regardless of Republican or Democrat, and Europe could self-interestedly spend its peace dividend on happier thing… (View Post)

Is that the latest Epping cocktail joint? (View Post)