Keeping Up Appearances

A few weeks ago the Honourable Member for Brent Central was temporarily banished from the Chamber for refusing to comply with the required rules of etiquette.  A bit like being sent to your room for calling your elderly relative fat. . .  Or perhaps not; for that’s more a matter of opinion, of kindness andContinue reading “Keeping Up Appearances”

A recent sense of dismay

I was about to embark on this when Covid intervened and for the moment it just didn’t feel like the right time. However, on reflection I don’t suppose these episodes do much more than shift the scenery. Despite such interventions and for all our apparent progress, it’s clear fundamental behaviours remain stubbornly unreconstituted. How elseContinue reading “A recent sense of dismay”