Also - the system favours well off people considerably, not least in its cutoff at higher bands. It's not wholly proportional or progressive by any means. (View Post)

"Expert witness" has a specific meaning in law, as I understand it: someone fully qualified and competent with the state of the art, and who can give an objective assessment of the evidence… (View Post)

Last sales effort was my late dad's house and although the EA wanted all the junk and packed up crates moved into dad's old workshop (irremediably tatty) and the house left furnished in a t… (View Post)

No. They had sundials and waterclocks. But the length of the hours varied with the time of year, which didn't help (the 12 hours of the day = the time between dawn and dusk). So when Pliny says … (View Post)

Next lesson:* a variable such as the price of a shopping-basket full; its first and second order differentials; and why one must never muddle them in political discourse. *Not aimed at you, o selenia… (View Post)