I'd add, fighting in Korea. I can't think of a single big decision that Truman got wrong. (View Post)

It turns out that Laurence Fox is simply not The Leader that the British People are yearning for. (View Post)

WRT the by elections, it's evident that Reform/Reclaim are of no interest to the voters, and that the Conservatives will pick up most of them. The Conservatives were 5% up in Selby, on the const… (View Post)

A few years ago, the Hermitage put on an exhibition of loads of art that the Red Army had "liberated" from Berlin in 1945. To my mind, it was entirely legitimate recompense for what the Ger… (View Post)

The Lake District is indeed a place of remarkable beauty. Your comment about politicians is also correct. (View Post)