This is indeed very similar to my family and friends' experience over Christmas, which is partly why I'm quite surprised by some of those reports just put on the thread. I heard a figure ye… (View Post)

The seaside towns and the Red Wall constituencies will also clearly agree, lovers of modern multicultural Britain as they are one and all. (View Post)

https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2013/dec/07/dinner-with-margaret-thatcher-literary "He also described it, in a letter dated 21 November 1982, to his friend the novelist Kingsley Amis. &q… (View Post)

In 1982, Thatcher's flunkies assembled a dinner party's worth of academic and artsy figures, of a stripe that they thought might be more receptive to her - Tom Stoppard, Kingsley Amis, Phil… (View Post)

George Monbiot is an alumnus of Stowe School as well, I think. I once had a friend who went there , and he often mentioned how shockingly beautiful the school's site was. He almost seemed more e… (View Post)