To be fair wraparound childcare costs can be absurd. It's about 11 hours per month, at £15 per hour, you're up to £160. Plus food, including all costs, perhaps another £50? "Up to" is the i… (View Post)

Yep, soybeans. The Chinese are now buying from Argentina instead. (View Post)

There's always a bottleneck - that's how you end up with the "one more lane bro" situation in places like LA. Even if we built HS2, you'd quickly find a new bottleneck somewhere else as the… (View Post)

The first third was utterly gripping. Great stuff. The rest of it was a bit meh sadly - would have worked better if they had merged the story lines about 2/3rd of the way through. (View Post)

That's exactly how it feels to be living in a flat in Middlesbrough though - they are sometimes paying 2.5% of their property value in council tax. (View Post)