"We have been quite lucky in the past with a fair share of good winners, but this just tops the lot.
Perhaps deep historical forces are now so ranged against Labour that it will be lucky to push past 30% of the vote, whatever it does – and it will have to understand that change will be authored by a range of political actors, many of whom it currently considers its enemies.
I was lucky because the past 4 night have been totally clear, unlike last week.
I have been lucky over the past few years to attend several gay weddings; weddings that, like Richard and John's and Barbara and Diane's, celebrated unions long past the first blush of romance.
I grew up being told that any talk about money was "crass" so perhaps it's lucky that my past significant others have all been types that would rather have ten drinks on a Tuesday night then buy groceries.
I grew up being told that any talk about money was "crass" so perhaps it's lucky that my past significant others have all been types that would rather have ten drinks on a Tuesday night than buy groceries.
London's been lucky over the past couple of years in that the culinary illuminati suddenly realised that pork pibil and queso fundido taste really, really good, and so decided to replace all those industrial estate tex-mex restaurants where plastic sombreros come included with your first watery mojito with places where you'd actually want to spend your money on food.
Others upstate were not so lucky, and in past storms, people have been left stranded on their (relatively dry) patches of roof.
It's time we moved past using Ivy League degrees, past lucky breaks, and discriminatory pattern-matching to sort people into careers.
In 1908, when Lloyd George bullied through a payment of five shillings a week for poor men who had reached 70, Britons, especially poor ones, were lucky to survive much past 50.
I just feel lucky that in the past few years, all the dumb shit I do when I'm stoned is actually managing to entertain some people.
