The chart of who was on duty when X baby died is the key bit of 'statistics'. Its gestation is important - which babies were included and excluded changed over time. (View Post)

An early form of the process state, right there. (View Post)

Dominic Sandbrook makes the point about Britain that it was the First Nation to industrialise and in the 60’s and 70’s became the first to deindustrialise too. It stood out from other western nations… (View Post)

Insisting on the use of railway station is like a Reform policy. Its redolent of a forgotten era - Miss Marple perhaps, gently upbraiding Inspector Slack "No, Inspector, the Railway Station"… (View Post)

I certainly haven’t shot you out of the water, but the context is important. Most left wing critics of Thatcher forget that part. And it’s not really decline, rather it’s transition. Changing an econ… (View Post)