As a child growing up in Hackney I regularly came across water otters. It was only much later I learned that most people called them kettles. (View Post)

Isn't there something of the 'bald people squabbling over a comb' about all this? (View Post)

That is certainly true of the small town in Gloucestershire where I live, Al. It is remarkable to see a black face here in the same way that it was remarkable to see one in Hackney, where I grew up, … (View Post)

Really? My friends from Ireland have always led me to believe you couldn't make a present of the six counties to anybody, but maybe they have misled me. (View Post)

Asked my daughter for a single word for him and she instantly volunteered 'technocrat'. She is a lawyer working on the Government on its employment legislation. (I haven't the faintest idea how she v… (View Post)