On one hand, there is a category difference- there isn't any cash involved, unlike Motability or PIP. But once you start riding the "it's not fair that they get something nice" tiger, it's … (View Post)

Also, Lib Dems are bloody good at digging in locally. "Standing Up For Yourtown at Westminster", that sort of thing. The sort of antipolitics that is pushing Reform and the Greens forward r… (View Post)

Putin can't end this war, because if he does, there are an awful lot of windows to push him out of. But this looks very much shit or bust. The Russian President is one, and his country is close to be… (View Post)

I know what you mean, and you have a point, but... For a long time, the wealth was slightly shameful and the way to absolve that shame was civic duty. Thing One attends a school whose origins are in … (View Post)

The latter half of the 1980s, I'm sad to say. (View Post)