It's a weird tangle we've got ourselves in. British people are about as rich as we have ever been, there are clearly useful jobs that need doing, but we somehow we don't think we can a… (View Post)

Partly Douglas Adams's Third Law of New Technology; Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things. Partly the refusal of Generation Boomer to let go of the cu… (View Post)

He's probably right, though. Forty percent right-of-centre vote in one box wins in lots of places. Split it into two boxes, twenty-five and fifteen, and it wins in very few places. Substitute &q… (View Post)

The "victim of the evil dictator still worshipping the evil dictator" is a standard trope of that sort of dystopian fiction. It's a shock seeing it play out in real life, but it probab… (View Post)

Plus, it would present Andrew Rosindell with an impossible choice. Does he accept that Romford is part of London, or become a Frenchman? (View Post)