Proper books all the way for me. I don't own a tablet and wouldn't know how to read a book on it even if I wanted to. Lovely to have shelves filled with books, like a room full of old frien… (View Post)

Indeed. I remember reading a piece on the rivalry between Johnson and Cameron, which said that neither man could understand the appeal of the other. They were of course both right. (View Post)

To be fair to Iran, which I know they don't really deserve, responding to a terrorist outrage via an air strike on the alleged perpetrators is exactly the kind of thing that we or the US would d… (View Post)

I still struggle to see Labour winning a three figure majority given (a) Starmer isn't that popular and (b) the 2019 baseline. I still think Labour is highly likely to win a majority but a 1997 … (View Post)

I think that we may all be surprised by the improvement in governance that simply comes from no longer calibrating policy in every area to pander to the worst prejudices of the stupidest people. (View Post)