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 cruc… (View Post)

To me this feels a bit like the post 1979 Tory government. You have an unpopular PM with a solid majority trying to clean up an horrific mess and tanking in the polls. You have the main opposition lo… (View Post)

In the words of Willie Rushton: I’ve been as far as Orpington, Tufnell Park and Golders Green Seen the Northern Lights of Harlesden and visited East Sheen I’ve travelled out to Ongar on the dear old … (View Post)

It's been the reason that most people have bought newspapers for the last century or so (View Post)