Nationalisation would need assets to be booked, and not just expenditure. But it is futile anyway because the next government would just flog them all off again. And not even Jeremy Corbyn would want… (View Post)

Joe Bugner has died. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/boxing/articles/cjw6jjqljeeo Joe had the ability but not the temperament to become world heavyweight champion, after an early opponent died. (View Post)

Her looks will fade before his. A few years from now, she will be the brains, he the beauty. They will complement each other perfectly. Well, not perfectly but a bit. (View Post)

Cuts are not the problem. It's lack of growth and the systematic selling of any national assets not nailed down so that profits and wealth flow abroad rather than circulating round the British econom… (View Post)

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)