I am afraid that reflects rather badly on YOU, except that I have confused Frank Capra with Robert Capa, which reflects rather badly on me I blame two large “rose water gins” on my jungle balcony in … (View Post)

Labour are gonna get marmalised on May 7 and I am pretty sure things will move fast from that point (View Post)

Not quite sure what you mean, but I am a damn sight more proud of her prize winning progress at St Andrew’s than I am of my 2:2 in Philosophy from UCL, which I acquired despite attending no lectures … (View Post)

The Rwanda genocide is maybe the weirdest of all 20th century mass atrocities I’ve now read quite a lot about it, but no one has a really good answer to the basic question: WHY Yes the Tutsis were fa… (View Post)

My older daughter is studying classics at St Andrews and absolutely loves it. And it’s a lot harder that film studies at Sussex Uni She’s shown me some of her assignments. Reading a lot of difficult … (View Post)