Thanks, and agree with all you say. Tough on your mum - and tough on the millions of low paid workers on zero-hours contracts, 'self-employed' Uber-type contracts and so on. What do those m… (View Post)

Yes it is about personal responsibility but it's also, as you hint, about economics. As usual, it's the less well off who will struggle to exercise personal responsibility. A lot of people … (View Post)

Yes; as was I. (View Post)

You're probably right, but not definitely. For all his obvious weaknesses, I have a suspicion that Starmer is a chap of real integrity and that he is incorruptible (one of the reasons he was a s… (View Post)

Let's hope we don't have a trans hurricane then. The confusion would be immense, as people tried to decide whether there was a safe space. (View Post)