This is the BBC repeating a corporate press release and giving that company lots of free publicity. Snag has played a blinder. (View Post)

So you've retired early? That doesn't sound like poverty either. And not a luxury the generation who come next are going to have. (View Post)

Yes. Much more difficult to be a politician nowadays. The other aspect to this of course is that this is the first generation of politicians since social media started making people stupider. But tha… (View Post)

I'm only 49, but I'm sceptical there was ever a golden period of competent politicians. Politics is incredibly difficult and required mastery of impossible swathes of detail. We award yeste… (View Post)

To be fair to HYUFD, I think that is his point - that this board isn't representative - implicitly (?) for the reasons you set out. Not only is this site something of a middle class bubble (thou… (View Post)