Carnyx

Well, as the piece notes, insurance is an issue. The builders are already creating a moral hazard whereby the rest of us subsidide their profiteering on dud houses, and the insurance companies are ge… (View Post)

I quite agree on the latter sentence. Toolmakers were always amongst the most skilled workers, so far as I can see. A long way from the ordinary production line worker. Probably still are, for all I … (View Post)

Ordinary Seaman to Lieutenant - and not briefly OS as an initial officer candidate but doing it the hard way through Chief Petty Officer while still a youngish one. Difficult prewar, only really poss… (View Post)

The Kingsley Amis Alteration one? (View Post)

You could have fooled me. Just look at PB and the pearl clutching whenever tax is increased for poor slaveys earning only 100K a year. (View Post)