The most interesting thing about the Ofsted grading decision, regardless of whether one agrees with it or not, is its immediate implementation. As from today, no report will be issued with an overall… (View Post)

Yes, the Labour Party is finished. After all, they only got a parliamentary majority of 172 back in July. (View Post)

On smoking in pub gardens, I'd have thought it sensible to leave it to pub landlords to choose, which I guess they already can. If they want non-smoking outside spaces (for example, because thei… (View Post)

I think you mean Jess Phillips, not Reeves. (View Post)

As a fully paid-up member of The Left, I greet Starmer's removal of Thatcher's portrait not as welcome 'red meat', but with absolute indifference: I couldn't give a flying fu… (View Post)