Stuartinromford

That's the elephant in the room here. Blair could splash a certain amount of cash, because his fiscal inheritance from Major was pretty good. Cameron could get away with a certain amount of squeezing… (View Post)

For a long time, one of the bits of gaffer tape holding the Conservatives together was "we don't like each other, but we hate Socialists more". We're still seeing that. One manifestation is… (View Post)

One of the ways that the political right has decayed in recent decades. The old (patrician, somewhat snobbish) right line was "we think the left is well-meaning but mistaken, whereas they haven'… (View Post)

And one of the lessons of this fiasco is that the whole damn country is still at the "cut spending, raise taxes, but do them in a way that doesn't hurt me" stage. We all (sort of) know what… (View Post)

Fully agree- and even if it isn't be most cost-efficient thing to do, providing clear closure to grieving relatives is the sort of thing that civilised places do. But maximising the function "ba… (View Post)