IMHO a lot of the grumbling among the public comes from the compression of living standards between the bottom 20% and the middle 20%. Policies like the minimum wage have raised incomes for the lowes… (View Post)

Putin's party. (View Post)

The top ten is dominated by prestige novels put in to demonstrate the erudition of those compiling the list, and P&P is the only one I have read. I think the second ten has more good books in it.… (View Post)

A lot of the public think that plenty of people born in the UK are "immigrants". It's this little thing called racism that seems to be quite in vogue at the moment. (View Post)

I think it is a young man's book. It was my favourite book when I was 16. I tried reading it again decades later and couldn't get into it at all. A bit like how I loved the Lord of the Ring… (View Post)