Something to do with stories vs. not-stories? We experience plays, books and whatnot in time, one thing after another. Part of the pleasure is not knowing what will happen next, and that's distinctly… (View Post)
And importantly, none of this matters at this point. Despite what some seem to hope, Starmer is not going to go to the Palace, advise the King to call for Sunak and apologise for wasting everybody's … (View Post)
More likely, it's the 10K on one side of the velvet rope, the rest of us on the other, and the public/private sector distinction doesn't matter. We don't see the anonymous top industrialists in the h… (View Post)
What exactly is the Sue Gray story? Beyond some people in the No 10 system disliking her and her approach to work enough to do briefings to the papers? Surely the point is that The Boss wants her the… (View Post)
Trouble is that you can extract "homosexuality is an unambiguous sin" from the scriptures, but you have to do a fair bit of work. After all, you can't use the Old Testament without running … (View Post)