And if you are a conservative, as things stand Labour ticks those boxes and certainly has more respect for institutions than the modern Conservative Party, which is now anything but. (View Post)

As another irregular poster but frequent reader, I echo everyone else's sentiments of thanks for keeping this site going for so long, and my best wishes for what may be a difficult path ahead. (View Post)

Interesting how you view it; your instincts are to the right so perhaps you don't see the weirdos on the right for what they are. I am more centrist and see both sets of lunatics as being more o… (View Post)

Don't forget that about a year ago, inflation was 11% and pay rises were at best 5-6%; so if you're working for a typical employer such as mine this year offering about 1-2% above inflation… (View Post)

Maybe there is a gradual continuum but I didn't notice much weirdness in the 2000s. I was thinking back to the Olympic summer of 2012 and how different everything felt then (despite a couple of … (View Post)