The honest truth is that there has been a vacuum of competent people at the heart of government for some time now. Brexit hollowed out/removed a lot of the talent in the party, and the upper echelons… (View Post)

I think quite a few people care about it while it’s on, and pay more attention to sports that don’t get any coverage normally (the conversations people start having around modern pentathlon and that … (View Post)

Can’t they get Andrew and Fergie’s kids in to do some of the hospital openings etc, the ones of crazy wedding hat fame? I get that they have morally questionable parents but it’s not their fault, and… (View Post)

I am getting visions of that Fawlty Towers episode where Polly dresses as Sybil on her sickbed.. (I am pretty sure she’s not dead or absent, FWIW, but it is all grimly amusing) (View Post)

It’s the main argument against monarchy that I’ll entertain. Not really bothered about the exclusionary/exclusive/heredity nature of it insofar as it impacts on me or my life, but more about how it a… (View Post)