Well I just did something rather novel. I voted Labour for the first time in my life. No love of the party generally, but I cannot bring myself to vote Tory whilst the government is such a cluster***… (View Post)

Another sad byproduct of it is that it creates an economic generational divide: a graduate in a decent career who graduated before the new fees came in is going to have a realistic prospect of being … (View Post)

Rather depressed tonight. I have never held the UK government as some mythical entity where decency always holds and ministers can be trusted to do the right thing - I think people do look back with … (View Post)

Also worth noting we didn’t have to factor in an “oh well the Fuhrer has a stonking great doomsday machine he can trigger and blow up half the planet if we go to war with him” element. And thank good… (View Post)

This is, regretfully, where I am at too. Nobody’s lives are going to be bettered if we escalate this to a global conflict. Billions of lives would be destroyed, and those that aren’t would be irrepar… (View Post)