People are messy- and one of the lessons I've learned from living in the vicinity of really good people is that you never really attain virtue; as you peel away one layer of bad, it just reveals anot… (View Post)

In vice? (My college's deputy leader was the Vice Mistress. This got even better when an eminent chemist called Trevor was appointed to the role.) (View Post)

It's the peculiar thing about the Brexit/Johnson/Reform movement. It's bedrock is older homeowners. By definition, they are relatively comfortable in the main. Certainly more so than the generations … (View Post)

OK, fixed may be going too far. But it's a problem that's been creeping up on us since 2019 or so- steadily increasing from about one a week to nearly one a day. The basic act of making people sign o… (View Post)

Not Roger, but this looks like the state doing its job effectively. Clearly there was an omnishambles last Friday. But since then, this guy has been tracked down and deported, and a process introduce… (View Post)