Impoverished elderly friends live on the rural edge of my old patch in the old estate which was the scene for Lady Chatterley's Lover, in a tumbledown rented cottage facing onto empty scrubland.… (View Post)

I broadly sympathise with many of your posts, but I do think it's really unpleasant to say you enjoy the prospect of anyone's illness being fatal, even though I get that what you meant is t… (View Post)

My one is a bit embarassing, but since you ask: 1960 US election. I was 10, in a largely American international school in Vienna. I'd read in some left-wing paper that Kennedy, although more lib… (View Post)

I think that saying council house sales are bad policy but people are entitled to do what they can for their families under current rules will be seen as normal by most people - like Healey saying he… (View Post)

I think it's an iron rule that one doesn't judge people by their relatives (a brother-in-law FFS?). I've known people (including at least one on this site) who I like and respect who h… (View Post)