Obviously you are far more expert in sweeties than I am (though regrettably I get my calories in other ways anyway)! (View Post)

Not price-inflation corrected, mind. Even ignoring covid, the peers spent very nearly 70K on shampoo in 2019. BoE converts that to £85,482. So that's a much smaller discrepancy, and then you… (View Post)

"real terms pay rises" - many folk have had a year or more of below real terms pay rises, even if 2023's inflation is mopre or less catered for. You also forgot a dollop of inflation w… (View Post)

Not least because HYUFD's criterion is only valid since 2015. 2010-15 wasn't a "one party" government: and he specified "longest continuous period in government of one party&… (View Post)

Happy New year to you (and everyone else)! OT: BTW just finished the multiauthor book on Smeaton the C18 engineer, edited by P. W. Skempton. I knew about the Eddystone lighthouse of course (models in… (View Post)