The British public position on tax and spend is as follows: 1. They should raise taxes on other people who are not me 2. They should cut spending on other people who are not me (View Post)

It’s a sub- isn’t it? Like the paediatrician in Portsmouth (apocryphal, sadly). In the Wales case I suspect the reality is somewhat less amusing and more disturbing: that the scouts in question were … (View Post)

I’d forgotten how nice actual shandy can be. Was at the zoo in France, and driving later, and decided to have a bottle of panaché. Cheap mass produced stuff, but much nicer than a cola. (View Post)

The mean maximum anomaly for most of the UK this summer so far has been warmer than the mean temperature or mean minimum. So it’s been a summer of very warm days and not quite so exceptional nights. … (View Post)

The socially or nationally sui generis are more able to pull off being extremist. So there’s no contradiction. Stalin was a Georgian. Hitler was an Austrian. Bin Laden was an aristocratic Saudi. Etc. (View Post)