C'mon Peter. Some of us are old enough to remember Clapham Common (1988) or Ladbroke Grove (1999), though it's true there hasn't been a double-digit fatal crash since 2001. All the gor… (View Post)

In 1969 you could take a bus, with comfort stops in Baghdad, Teheran, Kabul and Karachi (among others). (View Post)

Far too many tabloid headers along the lines of "Who do you think you are kidding...?" (View Post)

Furthermore, the life expectancy of males in 1942 was probably about 68. It reminds me of the apocryphal story about the silly undergraduate who said to the university Chancellor "I wouldn'… (View Post)

Uniquely among forecasters the Bank has the power to make their predictions come true - especially in the case of a recession. (View Post)