I think the Conservative governments of the 1930s and 1950s would have been approved of by their supporters. (View Post)

Chamberlain was a successful Mayor of Birmingham, Health Minister and Chancellor. He was not a good wartime leader, perhaps not helped by him dying of cancer at the time. His reputation is ruined by … (View Post)

This. People need to be willing to say "this isn't working, lets change things". But politicians, in particular, seem terrified of anything which might be an admission of failure or, even w… (View Post)

Some of the rioters were racist and some were not but all of them were people who wanted to riot. They were the sort of people who a few decades ago would be doing their fighting at demonstrations, o… (View Post)

Too many people preferred to be on furlough or work from home. Whereas everyone at my employer was working on site from May 2020 onwards - nobody had more than six weeks on furlough. There were also … (View Post)