Also O/T, but as you're around - I did the Ecclesbourne Valley Railway today. I'm not a heritage completist by any means but when they throw in a cream tea it's a very pleasant way to … (View Post)

Andy_JS was making a not unrelated point earlier about happiness and its decline and the reasons for it. (View Post)

FPT Well, up to a point. If recruitment and retention are a problem, make the job more attractive, sure. But acceding to strikers demands doesn't make fewer strikes. It shows that strikes work a… (View Post)

I actually quite liked this about Corbyn. The social convention of hqving to vary your outfit makes no sense to me. Worse for women, of course, though it's only other women inflicting this conve… (View Post)

It was a difficult issue to navigate well. But to be honest he went up in my estimation. There's nothing particularly tolerant or liberal about tolerating things you don't disapprove of any… (View Post)