I think I mentioned before Ken Clarke's assessment of the situation post-1979 on Matt Forde's podcast. 'The Labour Party had split in two and both were ahead of us in the polls.' I'm not saying Farag… (View Post)
There was a German mini-series called Charitè at War, about the Berlin hospital during the Second World War. One of the protagonists, a surgeon called Sauerbrook (a real guy, apparently, not sure how… (View Post)
There does seem to be a bit of a blind spot with Ed Miliband. I was reading in the Times last week (someone had left it about, I don't make a habit of it) about a protest over a solar farm at Blenhei… (View Post)
For all of Trump's moaning about European allies not paying their way, it's massively in America's geostrategic interests for Europe to be on their hook. Like you say, by and large, it means what the… (View Post)
The law student's favourite, Donoghue v Stevenson too. Though I'm never quite sure whether Atkin invented a new legal rule or whether he was just the first in the House of Lords to recognise an alrea… (View Post)