I've been off Parris since 2007, when he wrote a poisonous Christmas column about stringing piano wire at neck height across cycle paths (Rod Liddle did something similar more recently). Then pr… (View Post)

Sympathy with that. When my dad had gallstones they put him on a starvation diet for a couple of weeks. He turned yellow and they had "push button" on demand dosage of morphine on him. I ha… (View Post)

Can one of our lawyers ( @DavidL ?) comment on whether the AG's refusal to answer the "Do you benefit from a future Gerry Adams compensation award" in a Commons committee is in line wi… (View Post)

Purbeck ... memories. I still have my habit of sometimes swapping a similar sounding word in by mistake when I'm not quite sure. At school one day I managed, aloud in class, to replace the Prete… (View Post)

That's not supported by the several decades of data we have afaics. The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents has a paper summarising teh evidence we have, and a nuanced policy position:… (View Post)