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)

This was also the theme of Carry on Loving from around the same time, one of the more under- rated Carry Ons.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFOB4ad_Hb4&t=19s (View Post)

If we return to being members of the EU, Johnson will gradually go back to only being in box 4, but I agree unless we do he's probably in box 1, too. (View Post)