During the seventeenth century, devout Remainers in Lincolnshire had to hide in haylofts, or risk public flogging and humiliations. Some fled to France or Scotland. (View Post)

Don't forget the people who want to enter from the slip roads. (View Post)

I'm trying to imagine a revived foppish Disraeli taking on the ERG. "What positive clodhoppers you are ! An ounce of elegance, is there between you all ?" (View Post)

The Open University and the 1970s and 80s BBC had a lot in common, which isn't a coincidence due to various appointments Wilson and Callaghan made in it. There was also the Reithian drive of the… (View Post)

This was a huge part of the charm of 80's OU. Beardedly earnest academics with flares who already seemed to belong to a slightly different world ; as I remember the spoof series Look Around You … (View Post)