I used a VPN the other day to secure a good discount on car hire at a foreign airport. Amazing how much better the asking price is if you route your traffic through Afghanistan.

Top post. This whole era is very 1678.

In my book I included a table of office holders which identified those who were subsequently elected/became ministers. Above all the Group was a way to climb the greasy pole, appealing to Macmillan era ministers who wished to flaunt their youth appeal or fly kites to test ideas.

Very interesting. Thanks for the heads up. I didn’t investigate the social origins of the founders as carefully as I should have but my memory is that the early Bow Group had a strong University of London contingent. My sense is Oxford less represented, Cambridge more.

The indexer did good

I was there.

Tho I also feel like it would be an excellent wedding intro, followed by Ritchie Benaud’s voice announcing

“G’morning everywun”

That is brilliant.

I’d start my party political broadcast with that.