Happy Christmas to all PB fellows. I was going to wish luck for the puzzling too, but all looks to be drawing to a close on that front. (View Post)

I'll say this pretty directly. Lady Starmer looks like she is a highly attractive woman in her early forties. But, actually, she is an amazingly attractive 60 year old. (View Post)

It's one of my more unexpected turns as an Indie kid to be sympathetic to the modest re-rise of punk. Didn't expect to spend my 50s listening to some of the stuff I'm now keeping an ear out for, albe… (View Post)

The strangest thing is that, for the first time in 15 years, we have a PM (supposedly) representing a northern English constituency. Makes it even more bizarre that all this is happening on his watch. (View Post)

I'm sorry, I've realised UK Politics is all my fault. I was bumbling around Electoral Calculus a few weeks ago, as you do, and I wondered what on earth the Tories would need to do to lose the new Wea… (View Post)