"I was there first!" "No I was there firster!" "I started celebrating St George's Day last week!" "Every day is St George's Day!" (View Post)

I think this is because under the Australia system Britain would still have to take lots of refugees, because there are genuinely large numbers of people who qualify as refugees under the definition … (View Post)

Classic bit of understatement here. "One possible benefit is that it could give scientists a new avenue to incorporate nitrogen-fixing into plants to grow better crops." (View Post)

As part of my occasional series to cheer up the people of Britain about the state of their country, by way of comparison with another, I present this story about a rather special achievement by the g… (View Post)

I think the liberalisation of gambling laws under the last Labour government was symptomatic of what I saw as its largest weaknesses. When Mandelson said that New Labour was "intensely relaxed a… (View Post)