I mean you argued that by any score Denton wasn't Manchester some time ago, which isn't unfair, but if you want permanence in your governance structures, I'd say the folk memory of thi… (View Post)

I think if you drop a 100km ring around the South and the North, the most population you can contain is around 23 million for London, centred slightly north of London itself, and 20 million for the N… (View Post)

Conversion of semi finals to finals (and wins), selected teams, in major cup competitions (club teams since 2000): Argentina: 86% (43%) Spain: 86% (71%) (relatively few and recent) Liverpool: 78% (43… (View Post)

The early fall was Southport and the viciousness with which some mainstream Conservatives, the papers and, of course, Reform, were prepared to embrace and echo often outright false narratives origina… (View Post)

Tbf, it would be a far more obvious FU if he made the (former) Manchester Mayor a peer! (View Post)