That's an interesting bet. People often conflate 2017 and 2019 and forget that Magic Grandpa did rather well in the former (and terribly in the latter). The forgetting is often deliberate (I… (View Post)

We didn't get a colour TV until the late 70s. The excitement of seeing the BBC Globe in blue was palpable. (View Post)

A period in politics without a Cult of Personality would be quite welcome (View Post)

It's a category error that comes from being "culturally Tory". If you hold broadly Tory views (as I did), then "economically incompetent" is synonymous with "left-wing&q… (View Post)

"They will inevitably drift back up" While I agree that *surely* that is what is going to happen (?!), I had assumed that we would have seen that effect by now. In fact, we've had 20 o… (View Post)