I remember back when Martin Charteris was Provost I asked him what his and the Vice Provost’s jobs were. I’ll never forget his response: “The Provost’s job is to do nothing. The Vice Provost’s job is… (View Post)

Wait… so they evacuated all the foreign office staff in advance and now they are being criticised for not having enough people there…? (View Post)

FWIW, my daughter proposed a Christmas holiday yesterday. We googled and it was going to be £6k pp inclusive of flights. Her reaction - she’s 9 - was “no way, that’s far too much money for a holiday”. (View Post)

That’s spot on. Fundamentally the phone call doesn’t matter. It just leads to questions about his judgement (View Post)

It’s not efficient but there is lots of traffic. Better to take off with some people (and I suspect a lot of stuff) on board a d get another empty plane there. Even better to have every seat filled b… (View Post)