[Boiler]

I have heard a story of someone being derided by his own family for choosing to "get dirt under his fingernails" rather than follow the rest of them into their profession: law.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Blue Labour are irrelevant but I'm wondering what this apparently new breed of "Red Wall" Tory MP makes of all this stuff.

[youngian]

I have heard a story of someone being derided by his own family for choosing to "get dirt under his fingernails" rather than follow the rest of them into their profession: law.

[Tubby Isaacs]

In fairness, a friend of mine who lecturers in philosophy said some of Scruton's stuff in his field was surprisingly good. Reckon Paul's read it?

[Tubby Isaacs]

Quotation marks but no quotation. Who's the most significant person who's said this? Marcus Rashford? The Labour Party front bench? Jonathan Portes? Polly Toynbee?

[Tubby Isaacs]

Ah, I've got the Yorkshire Post saying "starve" (though not to death).

[Tubby Isaacs]

I should be fair to Paul that he did retweet something about the system that produced hungry kids being bad. So he's engaged more than some others.

[youngian]

Paul makes a valid point on a problem that doesn’t exist.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Good Lord. How does he think these two things are alike? Did he just think "Starmer.... Thatcher"?

[Tubby Isaacs]

I reckon Paul probably likes a fair bit of Mail content. Whatever, if he's going to force himself to go there, make it somebody less stupid than Hitchens.

[Boiler]

If the safety valves are blocked it'll stop when the boiler explodes anyway. Assuming the plugs don't drop and douse the fire first.

[youngian]

What a dim imagination Hitchens has. More Day Today live cartoonist Brant than Armando Ianucci.

[Tubby Isaacs]

The logic of it is bollocks anyway, however good or bad the metaphor. It was much easier for the government to stick with local lockdowns and keep eg Devon and Cornwall open to save face.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Yeah, Paul, these things are exactly the same thing.

[Tubby Isaacs]

More from Paul.