Interesting perspective. I remember Rawnsley writing about post-Iraq Blair that, having once said the thing he hates most is losing, he was acting like a man with nothing to lose. (View Post)

I did an analysis once on the healthcare costs associated with a particular underfunded disease to see where the gaps are to try and refocus research efforts towards them in the hopes of finding some… (View Post)

My plan for retirement (I'm many decades away) is to self-fund a long winded History PhD. It's going to be the most bloated and self-indulgent thesis that was ever written - a high bar, but… (View Post)

If you talk to Invernesians about people from the far north, they would whole-heartedly agree. There's nothing you can say about the people from Caithness that is beyond the pale for Highlanders… (View Post)

I dunno, they remind me of right-wing Weimar politicians bigging up the Kaiser after the First World War. Various would-be chancellors talked up their monarchist credentials but, when it actually cam… (View Post)