This reminds me of the excellent Einstein quote. The right response to God is thinking like a child in a giant library, with books up to the rafters, in a language we don't understand. We can di… (View Post)

Indeed. The French tend to regard themselves, for instance, and despite all the street demos, as a "middle class society", and have not compromised on culture and intellect towards the lowe… (View Post)

Tom Baker's father was supposedly a Jewish sailor from Liverpool, although he's always been very cagey about that due to having an ardently religious Catholic mother, and for a while traini… (View Post)

Melvyn Bragg is about as different from Nadine Dorries as can be imagined. Thoroughly working-class background, part of the 1960s to 1990s British intellectual establishment who for a while made Brit… (View Post)

Morning, yes I don't think there's any comparison on this. If Starmer had been anything like a liar as Johnson, he woudn't have been able to hold and perform reasonably well in the DPP… (View Post)