It never ceases to amaze me how many PBers think HR departments are about woke. In fact how many PBers see woke in almost everything. But that's wokehunters for you. (View Post)

No good; that merely pampers Tory voters in the Home Counties as opposed to Labour voters in Sedgefield and drives up the hotspot around London*. I'm coming round to the idea of abolishing IHT a… (View Post)

D-Day - more precisely, as pointed out on here today, OVERLORD - was closer to the American Civil War than today ... (View Post)

But that's true of many jobs then and now. The Treasury was always *very* careful to reduce civil service salaries to compensate for the pension scheme, set against general market comparators. (View Post)

Food pantries? You mean food banks with gingham tops? (View Post)