Pretty much. From there to Toby/Harvester/Pizza Express, anyway. Yes, I know. Or a very short menu done brilliantly, I guess. (Reducing the options was Gordon Ramsay's usual refrain on Kitchen N… (View Post)

After all, it was a temporary COVID fix and that's now long in the past. As with the Triple Lock, the issue is that there was never an exit strategy. Besides, I think we all agree that we want a… (View Post)

Professor Rosenblum called it correctly forty years ago: They'll never put you in a situation where you have no choice. They'll stick to salami tactics. Admittedly he was talking about Russ… (View Post)

There was a conversation here recently about why the Quakers were such successful entrepreneurs. In part, that was because they held themselves to higher standards, enforced only by a sky fairy. But … (View Post)

Do we need Michel Barnier to get that staircase diagram out again? There may be some more improvements on the step the UK chose to place itself on, but the fundamental access/autonomy tradeoff remain… (View Post)