It isn't especially right wing, not by normal UK standards. It is certainly not fascist. It is a chumocracy, and incompetent, features which have developed over a long period and which are best … (View Post)

It is certainly feeling a bit '97, but Starmer doesn't have Blair's wide appeal and there is still time for the Tories to steady the ship. So, 'on the cards', yes. Inevitable… (View Post)

I'd certainly stick with him, CR, if only because if the Tories change the nurse (again) for sure we'll finish up with something worse. Your assessment of S is similar to mine. He won'… (View Post)

My Dad was watching some 'temporary' pre-fabs being put up in 1946. He made some disparaging remark to the foreman who replied that they were high specifation homes to an American design an… (View Post)

Selebian, I grew up in such a tin-shed in Hackney Wick. It was warm, dry, comfortable and had a fridge and a bath, luxuries that were indeed rare in the neighbourhood at that time. It also had a larg… (View Post)