The Oxford station railway works that closed the only road into Oxford from the west have currently been running for three years straight. Admittedly 18 months of that appear to have been spent tryin… (View Post)

Can’t help feeling that whoever replaces Starmer is going to run into exactly the same constraints that the current government faces, both monetary and political. None of them seem to have any actual… (View Post)

ID cards are a Home Office hobby horse aren’t they? I suspect every department has its favourite policies that they try out on every new minister just in case they get one that’s sufficiently tractab… (View Post)

I first heard this joke with Poland and Genghis Khan instead. (View Post)

The reverse Midas touch! Just shows what a mistake it was by the Labour right to appoint him their anointed successor when he’d never really been tested as a politician. Now he’s been tested & fo… (View Post)