I would dearly love to see some international sporting event run under swiss seeding rules. Does away with groups completely, every team gets a guarantee of more games, and it's much better at produc… (View Post)

Council by elections this week Surrey (Sunbury Common & Ashford Common) - LDm GAIN from Con Arun (Arundel & Walberton) - Grn hold King's Lynn & West Norfolk (Gaywood Clock) - Lab hold (un… (View Post)

I can verify this - read it on @Cyclefree's recommendation, and really loved it. I find it hard to understand the quite widespread disaffection with Mantel's trilogy - I read this and absolutely love… (View Post)

I'm a woke leftie, and I thought it was terrible, obvious racism. But then, I would, wouldn't I. My wife, who is not very political at all and probably isn't entirely sure what woke means, read it la… (View Post)

I think it's fairly obvious that, when it comes to issues of corruption, incompetence, illegality and discrimination, the Met leads all the other police forces. They set the pace, much to the chagrin… (View Post)