Gosh! Poor you. I'm far from being the most adventurous of eaters, but when I think of the variety encompassed by just mackerel, cod, salmon, trout and monkfish, and the different ways to prepar… (View Post)

The House of Lords doesn't work. In recent years in particular, but arguably for some time, the Commons has produced a large quantity of very poor law, and the Lords had done little to improve t… (View Post)

A character in a book I read recently said something like, "pride is the only sin." (View Post)

This election campaign has given us a number of unexpected things, but can anything have been more unexpected than Davey's transformation into a figure of well-judged comic relief? You get the i… (View Post)

It was caused in large part by the hostile environment policies she enacted. Previously, people who had immigrated here, but whose paperwork wasn't in order, didn't have a problem getting a… (View Post)