I don't think this is true any more (if it was ever true). Tory policies on welfare, especially limits on benefits for third and subsequent children and policies on benefits for disabled people … (View Post)

Yup, the leaded petrol story looks quite convincing. I wonder too whether the long shadow of two world wars had an impact on how people interacted with each other, with people desensitised to violenc… (View Post)

Indeed, depressingly few southern whites seemed to recognise that slavery and racism was part of the same class warfare that kept them oppressed. Still seems to work on a lot of people. Sad! (View Post)

When I was at primary school a kid brought a detonator to school that he'd 'found' on the railway tracks. We had great fun chucking bricks at it in the back lane after school before it… (View Post)

Indeed, not an Iona of intelligence between them, barely have their mind in Gigha, and almost certain to Muck things up, come what May. (View Post)