Maybe with perfect referees they'd have missed the title by five points, or ten points. Mistakes aren't just in one direction. ISTR the last sort of study of this of any credibility I saw c… (View Post)

For the benefit of MattW, not much of this is actually in Cheshire. You see some development in West Cheshire (I think there's some around Helsby?), but there's loads of new development in … (View Post)

FPT: On social pressure at work: I was taken aback yesterday when a friend at work (public sector / big city) said something which hinted he thought both voting Conservative and voting Brexit was an … (View Post)

I have absolutely no issue with people choosing to put pronouns on their footers. However, most HR departments (certainly in the public sector and public sector-adjacent companies) are nowadays quite… (View Post)

Suggestions: There are exactly two sexes. The term 'gender' - except as a euphemism for biological sex - is at best unhelpful. There are vastly more acceptable ways to behave that 'ste… (View Post)