I think his refusal to rule out defection plus his clear statement that he WILL be a candidate makes defection likely. It's hard to see the Tories putting him up again, and he's surely not going to j… (View Post)

To be fair, 16 minutes is bloody fast compared with most of the private sector helplines that I encounter. I once tried to cancel a Norton subscription, which you can't do online - after an hour wait… (View Post)

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. Lite… (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 that you'd … (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 liberal,… (View Post)