No-one watching Prisoner 951 on BBC1? It is based on Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's imprisonment in Iran for six years between Boris opening his mouth and Liz Truss handing over £400 million. (View Post)

Hospitals Don't Burn Down Made by Film Australia 1977. Directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith. A disturbingly realistic film about a fire in a large hospital. This program pulls no punches and has ne… (View Post)

Trouble is that what Mrs Thatcher actually did was to stumble across two magic money trees – North Sea Oil and privatisation. To be fair, she helped create a third with the big bang unleashing the Ci… (View Post)

It does feel wrong but why? Why not ask why there should be VAT on Gregg's pasties when customers have already paid income tax on their wages? (Osborne himself favoured 5 Guys burgers iirc.) The… (View Post)

Many PBers are far more financially sophisticated than most. I can easily believe ignorance around the precise workings of IHT, and the need to pay it before probate is a new one on me, tbh. Look at … (View Post)