And we've seen how that's worked out for the one group of people who do feel better off, property-owning retirees: they're livid over the NICs cut! It's enough to make you feel a bit sorry for Rishi … (View Post)

The DUP would never speak to the Tories again if they were expected to turn up at an election count on the 11th night rather than dancing round a giant bonfire whilst drinking Buckfast... (View Post)

I wonder if we'll see a surge of deep vein thrombosis cases - it's already much more common than injuries from turbulence, and will likely become more so if people start to fear ever leaving their se… (View Post)

Not really, it doesn't show up on radar as clearly as other types of turbulence. There are some efforts to improve matters using more sophisticated signal processing algorithms, but it's mostly a phy… (View Post)

I was living in South Lambeth at the time, so about 150m away from where it came down (on the other side of the railway line). I didn't hear the helicopter, but the crash was horrendous - three big e… (View Post)