The Wegovy/Mounjaro etc phenomenon is fascinating. It's a juxtaposition of the prioritisation of health and wealth such as we saw in the pandemic and marks, to this observer, a potentially signi… (View Post)

I don't dislike her - apart from Rupert Lowe, I don't have strong views about any current politician, certainly in comparison to the verbal vitriol dished out by some on here. I presume she… (View Post)

Evening now all :) Wildly off-topic, I always thought the flour bombing of Roy Jenkins at East Ham Town Hall in 1975 was connected to the EEC Referendum campaign. There's a picture of him on the… (View Post)

Afternoon all :) Random late afternoon thoughts - a wonderful day for solar power generation. Mr Stodge Senior (the one with the Irish ancestry) was a long sitting and occasionally standing CAMRA mem… (View Post)

I confess I've not given the situation with Ireland much thought. My father's ancestor came to England from County Mayo but I've only been to Ireland once. I've always thought the… (View Post)