My record is: 1983: Con (Navy brat, living in Gosport, post-Falklands, what else?) 1987: Alliance (>LibDem, not the Northern Ireland one) 1992: LD 1997: LD 2001: LD 2005: LD (( was the candidate) … (View Post)

Always worth keeping in mind that Leon is a hybrid of two Fast Show characters: the Paul Whitehouse teenager who went around saying whatever was in front of him was 'brilliant!', and the Charlie Higs… (View Post)

I remember it as Brutus: Caesar adsum iam forte, Brutus aderat Caesar sic in omnibus, Brutus sic in at (View Post)

Happy St George's Day. The flag of St George was first flown in England by yeomen and peasants of the Weald of Sussex and Kent, rebelling against their corrupt and incompetent overlords. Just so you … (View Post)

Stritmatter is famous (notorious) in Shakespearean scholastic circles for his absolute monomania about this. For some years I was a fairly passive participant in the SHAKSPER online forum, and he was… (View Post)