Brookes has almost as many students as Oxford (well two-thirds of the enrolment). It also focuses on very different subjects and, while it has a good reputation in many of them particularly in terms … (View Post)

Given LA is ugly as sin, I think that was always likely. Paris it ain't. (View Post)

This is classic Michelle. She repeatedly says she has no interest whatsoever in running and won't run. Then a vacancy arises, and she doesn't run, and warmly endorses the person who is. Thi… (View Post)

That was a very different situation. McCain felt, probably correctly, he had to shake up a race where a poor economic backdrop put the incumbent party in a bad position. So he deliberately went for a… (View Post)

Mr Bean was global. I know a bloke who is a history tutor at Oxford who knew he was getting old when any Blackadder the Second references got a blank stare. I myself was struck by it when talking to … (View Post)