Labour could not propose a Norway type arrangement as Norway is not in the Customs Union ( which Labour thinks the UK should belong to) but is signed up to elements of the Single Market rules that Labour ( or […]

The best thing about condition 2 is that it’s the full benefits of the single market, but without havkng the freedom of movement. Something tells me that is unlikely.

Of course, Jeremy Corbyn said that the government should have gone for Article 50 the day after the referendum.

Prior to leaving the US, Macron was quoted as describing US backtracking on foreign policy issues like the Paris climate deal and Iran as ‘insane”.

I suspect that the scientists worked that one out some time ago.

Numbers one and three in John Peel’s 1977 personal festive fifty.

I think you might be confusing him with thr late Mark E Smith.

In as much as it matters, I am in the opposite camp. I like the music, but was less enamoured of the man, or rather many of the specific behaviours.

NME best band of 1973, so presumably still had some cache with some people at that point.

We should perhaps be less concerned about the senior procurement people and contract managers in government departments.

In my albeit limited experience, those who complain loudest about any honours list rarely go the trouble of actually reading it.

Coz I luv you.

I am still optimistic that the Stereophonics latest will make an appearance, though in truth I hadn’t expected to see it feature so high up the list.

Years hence, when we look back, I think we will find that Storm Donovan was far more significant.

I thought the show was excellent and a real step on from the Liverpool orchestral concert when they first went down this route.

Whilst feeling sorry for people genuinely delayed, as someone who routinely has […]

Given that BBC News is said to have a couple of thousand journalists, one might expect a little better.

I think his anger was driven largely by what he saw as Dylan’s unprincipled amd uncredited lifting of a Nic Jones arrangement. The latter being so e one who had by that time been unable homework for a decade and […]

At the same time, if GB had opted to leave NI rather than the EU, by some calculations the savings would have been £7.2 bn a year. Perhaps ‘we’d left the wrong one.

You heartless swine. Reading the heading my hopes soared, only to be cruelly dashed mere moments later.

Many things. A gent possibly not one of them. See Michael Hann’s article in todays Guardian.