It's an interesting example of the limitations of Johnson's habit of deciding stuff on a wing and sorting out any problems later. That can work quite well in electoral with non-technical st… (View Post)

Yes, that's brilliant! (View Post)

It depends partly how close you are to someone, doesn't it? I have an ancestor called Black Douglas who executed a peace emissary and sent a message back to the originator saying he could have h… (View Post)

There's a bit of generation gap in all this - kids aren't like we used to be, etc. - but there's also a cultural shift. Young people today seem pretty much like the Danish kids I knew … (View Post)

Among the 20 or so places that I've lived, Holloway Road was the best, for the "all of humankind" reason that Leon cites. Scruffy, cheerful, so mixed that you give up on trying to plac… (View Post)