Agreed, but there are a couple of catches. One is that there is an art to the insult, and 'lanyard-wearing class' doesn't have sufficient art. There is too much collateral damage. The … (View Post)

Hard to tell when the Conservative standard-bearers since then have been Shaun Bailey and Susan Hall. Neither of them came anywhere near 'semi-plausible candidate to run the nation's capita… (View Post)

If an insult needs glossing like that, it's a bad insult. Especially if you are an electoral politician and it causes people who might give you half the time of day to think that you hate them o… (View Post)

In places that don't have a school uniform, it's the least bad way of regulating at-a-glance who should and shouldn't be on-campus. That's most places post-16, and a small minorit… (View Post)

Thing is that a Big City Mayor needs to be able to turn on the kilowatt lightbulb from time to time. My City Is The Best City In The World, that kind of thing. The sort of thing that Andy B does for … (View Post)