Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby weren't on a jolly. They aren't dilletantes with money who stroll in and host This Morning if they feel like it. It's a job. Their job is to be hosts, and sometimes

As I look at the effect, he has had it occurs to me that his 2016 win was a huge fluke that probably should never have happened. However, he ran in a race against an exceptionally bad candidate and was

I’ve seen discussions of the jaw and lips and palate and teeth and such related to diet shifts over the last couple million years, and of course more recently speech, but didn’t consider that only humans

I'll grant you "Pandemic Amnesty" when you issue an apology and start doing some actual work to repair the damage you've done. Show contrition and stop making excuses. Everybody with a brain

I agree with Oster. Forgiveness (or "amnesty," as she puts it) is necessary. However: forgiveness is a two way street. We can forgive, but repentance is necessary. Those who have wronged and

I understand that the rail network needed people prepared to work overtime to function. But Transpennine Express cancelled FIFTY trains in one day last week. Fifty. Avanti manages one an hour to London.

Really, it's hard for me to think of anything that should land you in prison for possession. Still, isn't there a "scout thyself" moment here that a lot of people are missing? I'm with all of

This, one of my old favourites and finally pushed over the edge into administration. It won't be the first, and certainly won't be the last. By the Tories are voted out, this will be many of us. Hospitality

The only thing that could make the Tory party even more toxic than they currently are. The only thing that could make them even more morally bankrupt than they are. The only thing that makes them more

A party that was elected by 42.4% of votes versus 40% of votes and because of that held 20% more seats and thus felt empowered to enact a thing that 37.46% of voters voted for recently had a motion of

So imagine you were so petty that you pulled a vital satellite system from orbit above a war torn country because they weren't prepared to give all their conquered terrain over to an invader just because

Their claims, excuses, and demands are pathetic and transparent because they confuse liberalism, empathy, and compassion for weakness. Of course they expect Ukraine to stop fighting—and to lose the support

Lots of sabre rattling about tactical nuclear weapons being potentially used by Russia in the Ukraine conflict but its all a bluff. Putin is a little boy in an old man's body. The two main reasons why

Look, I know - I've seen loads of war movies and heist movies and spy movies, and all this is is a bag full of tropes and characters rattling around the Star Wars universe. Are there better war movies?

So there's an idiom in English: "Beats me" Usually it is represented by the emoji character as 🤷 I assume it refers to "X beat Y at Z" in the sense of being defeated in a conflict

At this point, I'd like to think that everybody knows that Biden's statement about a 9mm bullet being able to rip the lung out of the body is simply bonkers. Still, as a broader issue in the gun debate,

Look closely at the photographs of the orchestra on stage. What is the backdrop? The walls surrounding this supposedly Symphonic acoustic design are slats of combination diffusion and absorption, like

First rule of politics: tell people good news about the future regardless of reality. Second rule: point the finger at parties intervening between the electorate and their desires, again disregarding facts.

Investopedia link: Tax rate CUTS cause MORE revenue to government all the way down to 18%. Any average of tax rates that is above 18% causes LESS revenue to government. It is ONLY if you get the average

I've been thinking on this more, trying to divine the root of the impulse, and I think part of it is this: What makes for good/useful/non-harmful art is going to depend to a degree on the audience. Historical