I listened to the WPP conference call the other day (in case anyone doesn't know, the agency group Martin Sorrell used to lead). They said that, for them, the most important revelation on the co… (View Post)

If we accept the proposition that UK politics are moving more towards the US i.e. based on cultural values, than economic ones - which I think is right - then the problem Labour has is that its natur… (View Post)

Well, thanks for the best wishes, hopefully it won't be too long but who knows! Just on Obamagate, I mentioned to Uniondivvie, I'm a Conservative but disagreed with the pit closures. The th… (View Post)

Funnily enough, friends who are doctors are less relatively draconian, probably because they realise illness comes in many different guises. Civil servants and teachers / lecturers are the worst. (View Post)

Funnily enough, from my experience, the biggest supporters of a draconian, as long as it takes lockdown have been middle class public sector professionals whose wages and pensions are not impacted cu… (View Post)