Ah, they say. But ours don't actually work, so they are quite safe from terrorists. (View Post)

Does my writing a comment cause a new thread to spawn automatically now? (View Post)

Who can forget Jack Hawkins in The Cruel Sea, holding back tears of exhaustion and defeat, and spitting out in his gravelly voice "It's the whole bloody Special Military Operation." (View Post)

BBC: "Robert Alden, Conservative leader at the city council, had been vying to become the first Tory MP for the constituency since 1936." Pre-coffee brain: "He must be very old by now?… (View Post)

I don't expect (or welcome) a Tory gain, but if they do, I don't buy your special pleading. It would reinforce a pattern of Labour underperformance in the Midlands, and Labour strategists w… (View Post)