All very interesting, but did Aunt Edith come for Christmas or didn't she? (View Post)

On Diane Abbott, it seems to me that Labour/the NEC were desperately hoping that she'd retire with dignity and go down in history as a trailblazer. They didn't want her to stand again large… (View Post)

Don't forget Historian of the Conservative Party, 1834-2024. :) (View Post)

Ha - I was exactly the same, but back in 1979 - a government-funded STEP (Special Temporary Employment Programme) job for unemployable graduates, as I then was. Plus ca change, eh. (View Post)

I know quite a lot about apprenticeships - they are of very mixed quality. If the Tory policy came to pass, it wouldn't take long for folk to start talking about the poor-quality, mickey-mouse a… (View Post)