One of the ways that the political right has decayed in recent decades. The old (patrician, somewhat snobbish) right line was "we think the left is well-meaning but mistaken, whereas they haven&… (View Post)

And one of the lessons of this fiasco is that the whole damn country is still at the "cut spending, raise taxes, but do them in a way that doesn't hurt me" stage. We all (sort of) know… (View Post)

Fully agree- and even if it isn't be most cost-efficient thing to do, providing clear closure to grieving relatives is the sort of thing that civilised places do. But maximising the function &qu… (View Post)

That's the unknown. How far will this government continue to drown after being thrown in the deep end? Or will some of its members start to do a fair approximation of swimming? How much will som… (View Post)

CS Lewis was right: The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid "dens of crime" that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we s… (View Post)