Recent UC applications show most new applications are from those too ill/compromised to work. It’s a choice between an ill workforce or importing a healthy one. No easy choices in politics. (View Post)

No staircase on the Douro. Just a 35m drop. (View Post)

There’s a more appropriate windmill on the next hill along. Mumms the word though (View Post)

Good morning from France. This 12% extra GDP they spend shows. Roads being renewed. Plenty of low cost public transport. Investment in education from the numbers of pupils around. No sign of this cou… (View Post)

About ID cards. Put me down as pro based on the premise that one of the factors driving illegal immigration is the size of the black market (sic) in jobs. I’ve been travelling the south of Europe in … (View Post)