Stayed there once. The faulty fire alarm in our room went off and the hotelier could only switch it off by cutting the cable to it with pliers. He then charged us for the damage. (View Post)

The clamour for the Tories to roll out the red carpet for Farage will surely soon become irresistible. It's an almighty itch that just won't go away. I doubt it will ultimately do then any good, but … (View Post)

Yes. For years it was always 'Only the philistine British would ruin a site like Stonehenge by allowing a crappy road to run past it. If they cared they'd invest in a tunnel.' Now the road is apparen… (View Post)

Now. Stonehenge. I grew up being told that the road that ran alongside it was a bloody eyesore and putting the traffic through a tunnel would restore the site's peace and ancient mysticism. But now, … (View Post)

Beergate seems to have become the British Right's Benghazi: a damming example of the incompetence, duplicity and wickedness of the liberal elite that unfathomably never resulted in the reputational d… (View Post)