But we should also compare the current leaders with Blair and Hague. LOTOs - In retrospect Hague was better than he appeared at the time, but he came across as inexperienced and a bit ridiculous - a … (View Post)

I have been wondering about this. I don't feel this is my battle, but I remember all the ardent feminists my age and older as students in the late 80s fighting hard for women-only safe spaces and can… (View Post)

One of the things I love about PB as a very rare poster is the way a thread will disappear off down an obscure or nerdy rabbit hole and yet loads of the regular posters seem to know all about it. I'm… (View Post)

And in 1841 the difference wasn't all that great - 16m in England against 8m in (the whole of) Ireland. (View Post)

Like many here I'm old enough to remember Thatcher as she dominated my teens and early 20s. During lockdown I stumbled across a documentary series on iPlayer on the Thatcher Years that I'd missed whe… (View Post)