Although for strict accuracy that figure is for all utilities and over half is for her constituency office. I think it's a tired trope that politicians shouldn't do X because they are allowed to clai… (View Post)
It's also a simplification of Christian doctrine. Archbishop Fisher once replied to an intervention by Philip Toynbee who argued that nuclear war was so terrible that we should immediately sue for pe… (View Post)
A.P. Herbert wrote some sparklingly witty prose on things like absurd legal cases. He was also the last MP for Oxford University. Hillaire Belloc was a wonderful writer and a pretty bad MP. (View Post)
If there are any truth to these rumours then the Tories ought to beware the example of the 1903 Lib/Lab pact. It contributed to the Liberal Party's stonking 1906 election victory but gave a crucial l… (View Post)