Of course it was theatre. There were plenty of people pointing out that the base map of government income and expenditure wasn't going to survive contact with reality, whoever won the election. If, s… (View Post)
A thought on the "incumbents getting punished for a difficult four years economically" thing... A lot of people had been struggling in the run up to 1992, but John Major got away with it. A… (View Post)
That says more about the admirability of your daughter. When I started teaching A Level physics, they had all read Hitchhiker's. One of my signature moves was to liken examiners to Vogons (not active… (View Post)
Call me a grumpy old cynic, but is suspect that in the Vance Version, separated parents have shown their unfitness to vote. Paterfamilias who are wealthy enough to have many many children, on the oth… (View Post)
Looks a lot like New London Vernacular; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_London_Vernacular which is sort of what you get if you take Georgian terrace bones and don't bother with the ornamentation. S… (View Post)