I viviidly remember Private Eye's amusing pieces in the 90's on the constant dodgy free gifts and free rides from Berlusconi to Blair. "Speaking from his holiday home at the Villa Free… (View Post)

The Quakers started many of the UK's most financial institutions and banks, but ran them utterly, utterly differently from 21st century Thatcherism. Quaker industrialists also had a good record … (View Post)

She looks surprisngly like a thinner Jennifer Arcuri in the photos, and also a little like a younger Boris himself , like Nadine Dorries. Hmm. (View Post)

But as dixiedean mentioned, it was the time of greatest progress for many working-class people, and a large number of those strikes and stoppages were also actually under the Tories. The economy had … (View Post)

I love the Eastern end of Crete, but you'll need car for that from Chania. So much of the coastline is spectacular, and there's also inland, that it depends what sort of thing you're l… (View Post)