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)

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)