Does that make the average person feel better off after the last three years' inflation accumulated and baked in? No, it does not. It is useless in that respect. (View Post)

Teaching lessons in the open air was quite a thing in the 1920s and 1930s, admittedly I believe in the drier and sunnier south of England. Might take off again. Who knows? (View Post)

This reminds me of Mrs T reducing state budgeting to a model based on domestic finance, at least for voter consumption. (View Post)

HYUFD can't be expected to bother with such mere details. He has no interest whatsoever in Royalty, unless it is Jordanian Royalty. (View Post)

You said "Jordan of course has had lots of very expensive weddings and equally expensive divorces" which is ambiguous. And I was doing you the favour of assuminhg you were a serious comment… (View Post)