I was thinking that when were doing Heseltine and Kenneth Clark as voices of reason. I head a long interview and... they're still Tories they just look sane compared to the current lot.
There used to be generally accepted parameters, and when one stepped outside them - eg the Poll Tax - it usually prompted a swift retreat to those parameters.
I knew his wife's sister. She was volunteering at an event with me and my then fiancée. When we went to her house (there was some fireworks thing in the village) John and Penny came round and he put down a mug of hot tea on a polished surface without a coaster.
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