It's weird, and surely cannot possibly be left like that. Geidt sounds as though his patience was being tried but the latest enquiry was so totally outrageous that he couldn't bear to be cl… (View Post)

So sorry - I do hope she gets a new date soon, and guess she'll be given priority as they'll realise how difficult it is for her. The situation in waiting lists is a real scandal, obviously… (View Post)

Not just politics. I had a friend, the games author Richard Sharp, now sadly no longer with us, who won the British Scrabble championship one year. The Telegraph rang him up. "Do you read dictio… (View Post)

So the biggest scalp of this parliament is taken by a discredited Corbynista. Maybe Starmer and Labour's front bench should up their game, unless it really is true they want to cement Boris in p… (View Post)

I do enjoy these travelogues, from you and others. You're a little unusual in being adventurous on your own, which makes them all the better. If the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict were to restart… (View Post)