Our view of British/English exceptionalism is that it, itself, is somehow exceptional. I suspect not: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10216435669019381&id=1086043551 (View Post)

Lol, I fear the anecdote has flown straight over your head here, and you a student of all things British and all. Jeremy Beadle - UK host of Candid Camera type programmes. Lioness - as Boris termed A… (View Post)

Favourite celebrity encounter: when Jeremy Beadle's cash card for eaten during panto season in Ashton-under-Lyne. Good humour was not in evidence. The cash card was eaten by a cash machine, I ne… (View Post)

On topic: I've put a few things out here from the council results in Batley & Spen. It is a place where council seats are contested by all parties each year, and council results do sorry in … (View Post)

It's not all re-alignment. If the election cycle was summed up in 1 word it would be - Incumbency. All the high profile incumbents held or gained votes from Sturgeon to Drakeford to Khan to John… (View Post)