I absolutely accept that they didn't take power in 2019. They were in coalition from 2010 to 2015, then in a majority until 2017, then scrabbling around in a coalition again. Was it right to try… (View Post)

Covid and Ukraine. The government did not operate in a vacuum. The most significant impacts on peoples lives were from paying for covid and the energy shock from Ukraine. I really think people on PB … (View Post)

You could nominate folk to run a leg, but the guy I put forward got nowhere. And yet if they had done an actual relay there would have been chances for so many more. Like so much at the olympics, it … (View Post)

For 2012 I was horrified to discover that the relay was nothing of the sort. Torch got moved between locations overnight on a bus. So a bunch of runners did the whole route as a proper relay. (View Post)

A huge part of the fabric of my summers since the 1980’s. Happiest when on holiday in Devon and the test match is on. 2019 Headingly, followingly the run chase that ended with Stoke’s heroics. If any… (View Post)