You can argue that it is splitting hairs and that given the close control his civil servants would have had over the encounter it was never likely to amount to much more than PR, but at least it ackn… (View Post)

That's an ignorant comment, William. You aren't going to get away with it on PB. There are too many of us on here up to speed with the scandal. Davey has no reason to be be proud of his rol… (View Post)

Oh, I'm perfectly familiar with that sort of narrative. Cockneys use it a lot. 'So I goes down the pub and I sees this geezer...' In moderation it can be quite effective, but I whole b… (View Post)

Thanks, Leon, but I wasn't being entirely serious. May I ask you a perfectly serious one though? What do you think of Wolfe Hall, or more specifically Hilary Mantel? I gave up after 140 pages. I… (View Post)

Can somebody explain the attraction of The Hundred to me? It is a competition between teams I have never heard of and to whom I have no allegiance playing a form of the game more akin to baseball or … (View Post)