"Interesting but irrelevant" - (Prof) Cedric Watts, 1967
It’s comforting to know that when we pay our tax bills the money goes to Conservative Party friends, relations and donors for largely useless goods and services. https://twitter.com/phantompower14/status/1597349091398549505
Michelle Mone’s alleged involvement in corrupt PPE contracting could be just the edge of this. She won’t go down alone and this may be a Tory scandal that detonates the party, pulling Sunak in. The next General Election might be closer than we think.
Siting a psychiatric hospital has brought out the worst in politicians and the press for centuries.
As ‘the first draft of history’ old newspapers can remind us of past achievements and missed opportunities.
How does a republican reflect upon the death of a queen?
A lifetime of adventure and research has turned John Pimm into Glenside Museum’s ‘history man’.
I owe these rail tales to David Harrison who produced an Evening Post supplement in 1985
