I remember growing up and understanding a billion to be a million million, then getting to secondary school and finding it had changed. It bafflrd me that you could do ths. How can you just change wh… (View Post)

ISTR one of the Gaza independents was the decision maker (at AVFC? At West Mids police? Can't remember.) Which doesn't strike me as a disinterested ad impartial observer. I'm sceptical it was a decis… (View Post)

You probably wouldn't tax motorways. That's where you want the traffic to be. You'd tax city centres and minor suburban roads the highest, busy urban arterial roads in the middle, and motorways and q… (View Post)

I have just been up to the local footbridge over the M60 - which in the flat lands of South Manchester is the highest point around - to look at the fireworks with my wife and some daughters. We also … (View Post)

People don't wear suits any more. Poppies were much more common when people wore the same jacket and/or coat every day. I ususally buy a poppy. But I have nowhere really to put it. (View Post)