C&F is going to be one of those seats where reliable information from the ground v. fluctuating odds based on the mood music could provide a good betting opportunity (if it appears in an individu… (View Post)

Tangential first class travel story incoming. Feel free to skip it. Just before lockdown I ended up teaching the cabin crew in BA First the correct orientation in which to serve a Tarte Tatin. They w… (View Post)

And the Silmarillion is one (heavy) edit of a wider selection of material. As it happens I loved RoP and felt it was, by and large, much closer to the tone of Tolkien as I read him, than e.g. the Jac… (View Post)

But in the last few years, the GOP vote has underperformed the polling average, and explicitly Trump backed candidates have underperformed that. So I think we are in a different phase. ETA: I'm … (View Post)

I suspect what we are seeing is a "bottoming out" - so a trend towards a minimum everywhere, which is necessarily going to reduce the relative differences. (View Post)