Very best of luck - what an awful time of year for it, too. Let us know how he gets on. (View Post)

My specialist subject up to a point, and I'll have a shot at putting both sides. Other things being equal, removal of impediments to trade is always good, so I agree with the Government's w… (View Post)

Sounds like norovirus. I had that once, 24 hours before I was due at a job interview 100 miles away. I was up all night, as you describe, felt OK by 10 next morning, and drove over, hoping my sob sto… (View Post)

One objective difficulty is that although we are indirectly at war we have not specified what our war aims are. Enabling Ukraine to hold out? Enabling them to push Russia back to the 2014 boundary? E… (View Post)

This is all a bit tedious, like the lab leak debate and the existence of God and the meaning of life. We've discussed it inconclusively, we can't prove any of the theories, nobody's pe… (View Post)