I think Nick Cohen was spot on here: Conservative readers still don’t understand why the Coalition is hated in the poor areas of Britain. They would grasp the loathing better if they went back through the arguments they made in … Continue reading
This is a little premature, because I’m still waiting for a couple of FOI responses to come in, but events are getting ahead of me. Richard North wrote recently: About half a million pensioners spent Christmas in bed, in order … Continue reading
The piece in the Telegraph today, suggesting that left wing people move right as a pack as they age, without realising it, so they are less left wing than they think, is interesting so far as it goes. But there’s … Continue reading
This news story from today: Prof Mike Kelly, the public health director at Nice, added: “This isn’t about telling individuals to choose salad instead of chips — it’s about making sure that the chips we all enjoy occasionally are as … Continue reading
Remember the Battle of Lechfeld? In 955, on the plain of the river Lech, the German army defeated a Magyar horde and ended one of the three barbarian invasions of Western Europe. At least, that was always the conventional, “official” … Continue reading