Paper straws are un-American. Real patriots use plastic straws. Trump brand. Made in China. (View Post)

On the leadership of Labour thing, am I really the only person to have noticed that despite its performative equality guff the Labour party and the wider labour movement is at heart patrician? (View Post)

Those new jobs often were created in the redeveloped areas. I've already given her credit for actually doing that. But look at the jobs - we replaced heavy industry with warehousing and call cen… (View Post)

Thatcher did preside over a feel-good boom. People not only were better off but had shiny new stuff to prove it. Of course the Tories want to go back there. To summarise the problem with Thatcherism,… (View Post)

Why should we teach the "anglocentric" view of the world - and what even is that? My kids transferred from English to Scottish schools 4 years ago, and the difference in the syllabus was ma… (View Post)