Lockdown was indeed a moderate inconvenience but most of us found ways to accommodate it. Expecting less healthy people to die to avoid it is totally unreasonable, and a step towards a society where … (View Post)

I don't think so. In Parliament debate is dominated by people making lengthy speeches where they could have made their key points in 5 minutes. The result is that most MPs don't bother to a… (View Post)

It's because it's unusual, plus it intersects what a lot of us are doing (i.e. Xmas shopping in Europe), so we can very easily think we might have been there. But I do think that the press … (View Post)

I had what appeared to be a serious stroke (out for the count for a couple of hours), from which I've apparently almost completely recovered (occasionally vague about names, but that's not … (View Post)

It's very individual, but approaching 75 I don't find I'm getting more conservative - for me, something left of Labour's current inclination feels right, though I'm loyal to … (View Post)