This thread has had the Asda skirt and Nike trainers treatment. (View Post)

PB pedantry: first civilian air raid death was [edit] in Orkney in March 1940 (presumably targeting naval stuff in Scapa Flow). https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/76280 The death was here… (View Post)

There have been so many it wouldn't surprise me if I had overlooked one or two. (View Post)

Obvious factors might be (depending on the defintions) (a) increase in part-timing (notably in nursing) (b) ditto in agency and contractor work (no idea if counted in) (c) staff turnover in the yeart… (View Post)

Competition between academies/free schools for customers, aimed at the parents, esp. the parents who worried about appearance and good behaviour andf could spend money on uniform. Exclusion of the lu… (View Post)