My (possibly very ill informed) views on the next Pope, for what it’s worth: - I can’t see it being a shift to a hardline conservative. That rules out candidates like Sarah. - Tagle feels to me quite… (View Post)

If I could get away with not having a TV licence, I really would. I very, very rarely watch live TV now, typically only live sport and live events like elections. But of course if you do that, you ne… (View Post)

Andrea Jenkyns is our answer to MTG. She is nowhere near as bonkers (the Americans always go bigger) but bonkers enough. (View Post)

Francis’ legacy is an interesting one. I should caveat this heavily by saying I am not a Catholic, although sometimes I find myself rather drawn to the sense of ritual and history behind it. It seems… (View Post)

The thing I find bemusing about the hasty row backs on the trans issue is just quite how spineless some of these figures are. I would count Starmer in that now. They weren’t willing to pin their colo… (View Post)