O/T but - TIL that John Simpson was political editor at the BBC for a year or so in 1980/81, prior to John Cole taking over. I hadn't realised that. (View Post)

It isn't really fair - Brillo (at his best) was an entertaining and robust interviewer who tended to try to explore an issue rather than score points; yes, he was significantly more "Labour… (View Post)

Have you seen the NASA fire map thing? There's a lot of burning over a wide area. (View Post)

This only goes to reinforce the only thing I've ever been able to conclude from US polling. Which is that it is worse than useless. Poorly presented, mediocre models, based on what seems to be d… (View Post)

Goodness me, I'm not a Liberal Democrat. But I don't think they need to position as an alternative government to be the recipient of "neither of the above votes" and end up (howev… (View Post)