The difference between the San Francisco I visited in the 1990s and the one I visited in 2019 was one of the most shocking things I've ever seen in the developed world. (And I've lived in Baltimore f… (View Post)

*We've told you before. There's no way you are ever going to be Doctor Who." (View Post)

Ah, Fraser's classic "everyman" experience of boarding at a private school. I grant you non-posh by comparison with Toynbee, though! (View Post)

Polly Toynbee is why I was a Tory for so long. (View Post)

In 1991 I did Hurghada to Cairo overnight in a taxi with two college friends and several Germans. We were stopped by the militarised police people and had the taxi ripped apart ostensibly searching f… (View Post)