Off topic, but it's Brighton Pride today, and the streets will be heaving. Some readers will no doubt be delighted to hear that American Express, a large employer here, has for the first time in… (View Post)

Come the next GE campaign, I think their perceived weakness on defence will hit both the Greens and the Corbynistas hard and limit their appeal to Labour voters. Both will be attacked relentlessly on… (View Post)

I sometimes reflect on my student days, late 1970s, when friends were widely dispersed and not only did we not have mobile phones, obviously, but we also didn't have landlines, and wonder how on… (View Post)

27,000 people at the Oval watching a 5-day game of cricket, with many, many more watching it on TV or listening to it on the radio, rather suggests that 'British culture' is still pretty st… (View Post)

It is. Just the subheading alone is a useful antidote to some (one in particular) posters on here: The country has serious problems but the right’s vision of it has become hysterical. (View Post)