There was a bizarre part of the story that the house had been valued at the IHT threshold, but I cannot make head nor tail of it. Even if true, it looks like mere numerology. (View Post)

The judges ordered them to be freed. (View Post)

A distinction complicated by the official use of Britain as a synonym not for Great Britain but for the United Kingdom. (And don't get the ScotNats started on the use of England to mean Britain.) (View Post)

I do not know viewcode's situation but a lot of companies expect even quite low-level employees (eg me) to be available 24x7. That is why there is occasional talk of something like the French laws on… (View Post)

It did not help Mrs Thatcher that she chose as her joint campaign managers one bloke fully occupied with a Scottish bank, leaving her fate in the hands of a lazy, drunken, Old Etonian shagger. (View Post)