It's horrible, difficult, and creates all sorts of problems when you try and run an organisation or country that way ("trespassers will be forgiven", as the Franciscan farm sign says).… (View Post)

Defintely don't drive round a roundabout 7 times. You'll get dizzy. (View Post)

The challenge with undergrad and early postgrad dissertations is that... Yes, you want something new, but it's also got to be something that's pretty much certain to work, because otherwise… (View Post)

Four possibilities I can think of. 1 Farage wanted clever people, real experience, able to shake things up, but they all turned him down. So he's making do with who he can get. 2 Farage has got … (View Post)

It could all have been sorted out in a very quick, very private, phone call: "Hi, It's Andy from Manchester. Gissa by-election- I could win a by-election." "Piss off. That's … (View Post)