I love this list on what I think is a underrated topic. I think my own list might be: 1 Thatcher (surely top of everyone's list, love her or hate her, that voice is just awful) 2 Sunak (I'm… (View Post)

I think it makes sense that if you build something new you build it at a spec that reflects the technology available. When the Victorian built our rail network in the 1840s they didn't build it … (View Post)

And that is why people send their kids to Winchester! Limitless self confidence in the face of all evidence to the contrary. (View Post)

We'll have to agree to disagree about it I'm afraid, and what do I know, I only lived there for five years. Most of the city bears a closer resemblance to Georgetown than to the big neoclas… (View Post)

Yeah everyone in America is angry, it's nuts. Too much coffee and not enough holidays is my theory. I lived in Washington DC for five years, on Capitol Hill just a few blocks from the Capitol bu… (View Post)