I don't think, though, that things will get moving, with such weak investment. Hence so many businesspeople are supporting Labour's 28billion plan, not Truss's tax cuts plan. (View Post)

An Early warning systm. Perhaps there could be some sort of email alert sound file, with rcs adding a few seconds from a world war II siren, every time Casino and others are about to enter a royal st… (View Post)

This is true. However, in Europe, they also all have monarchies that are now less militaristic, and somewhat less susceptible to excessive pageantry. Keep the military connections if you like, but sc… (View Post)

Talking of Betjeman, although he occasionally hit the heights, there's a certain repressed-but-dirty-raincoat-brigade aspect to both him and Larkin that I find a bit off-putting. They disliked t… (View Post)

Had Starmer had his way, we would probably actually have lower immigration, now. We lost many thousands in critical services and service sectors back to the EU after Brexit, and the tories have incom… (View Post)