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)

Yes, quite. The key Opposition argument is that the Government keeps getting distracted by fringe issues and ignoring the problems of everyday living for most people. From woke to Rwanda to cervixes … (View Post)