I think you're reading a big story about tactical voting generally into a single data point - a local council by-election caused by the death of a very longstanding councillor who was a former M… (View Post)

I think they're technically a fruit. Or a kind of sedimentary rock. Or is it an arachnid? EDIT: No, I remember now, there was that VAT case, and I'm sure judges confirmed they were a cake. (View Post)

I should say I'm not actually a PE teacher. But I loathe children, so feel a tremendous sense of affinity with PE teachers. (View Post)

I agree. Being wrong and being negligent are not the same. I was of a view, from coverage at the time, that there was a case against KC trustees. But the judge, who'd reviewed a huge volume of e… (View Post)

This is ridiculously unfair to Devon's finest (well, third finest after Sir Walter Raleigh and Neil Parish). He was, of course, a privateer rather than a buccaneer, meaning he did basically the … (View Post)