It is, and she ought to be, except for one thing. Bad as she is, replacing her doesn't necessarily solve much, and on balance probably makes things worse. Jimmy C the Catford Kid isn't acce… (View Post)

Yup. I think we can now say that big chunks of the Thatcher model failed, and I suspect that her generation of Tories would have winced at the rentier's rights plughole that the party is now cir… (View Post)

One thing to do that with something like The Persuaders!, where the costs of the show must have been paid off years ago, and any extra revenue now is a bonus. (See also: M*A*S*H, and anything on a Fr… (View Post)

MASH is an interesting one. The early series did have good characters being flat-out nasty towards women, but the cast changes (Blake to Potter, Trapper John to BJ, Burns to Winchester) increased the… (View Post)

Nowhere near as heartless and greedy as those who paid for their parents to have stingy pensions but now expect their children to pay for them to have more generous ones. (View Post)