You may be right; I'm basing my post on what I recall from those days. And memory, as we know, can be a lying jade! (View Post)

Morning all! Catching up with the early birds, I know, but RIP John Prescott. However for me there's one blot on his escutcheon; but for his 'firmly' expressed opposition, Blair might very well have … (View Post)

We'd just experienced the (then, anyway) alternative, of course. (View Post)

I suspect that behind the scenes in government there's some furious thinking about some sort of tapered Winter Fuel Payment. And Good Morning one and all. Clear and cold here this morning. (View Post)

Dewali? Hanukkah? (View Post)