Regarding Boris's childhood, soon after he became PM I visited a National Trust property and in the tea room I overheard a group of very upper middle class women discussing Boris. One of them sa… (View Post)

Watching with my husband, we were both convinced all 4 would go through to the final as there was so little between them. My bet is that Chigs will win tonight as they keep going on about how he only… (View Post)

I noticed at the Remembrance Service last night at the Royal Albert Hall, when the various armed services marched in, for the Royal Navy they played: "All the Nice Girls Love a Sailor." It … (View Post)

I can remember the Commons in the 70s, so well depicted by James Graham in "This House", when MPs who literally were dying were brought by ambulance to the Courtyard of Westminster so that … (View Post)

Sting was briefly at the University of Warwick at the same time as me. One evening my friend asked me to join her for coffee in her room to chat to a guy on her course who was thinking of dropping ou… (View Post)