Interesting to see applause on QT for the comment we spend so much time debating fewer than 40,000 people arriving on small boats versus children in poverty. Perhaps finally we're getting our priorit… (View Post)

I was interested in your earlier comments about the Dutch elections. The VVD is very much the British Conservative Party - it's shifted markedly away from "centrist" positions and is unlike… (View Post)

Afternoon all :) The substantive question is whether Reform will become the Conservative Party 2.0 or whether it is a genuinely new political movement based on a nationalist, anti-immigration social … (View Post)

Even when I was a student back in the Renaissance, when there were grants, there were those who augmented their stipend with second jobs - the most popular being night work at the bakery over the roa… (View Post)

Morning all :) A few unconnected thoughts this morning - on language (or the lack of it), the fact the word "holibobs" has entered normal parlance suggests the English language is finished.… (View Post)