That's my understanding. It was a partnership arrangement. Melinda obviously got unimaginable wealth out of the relationship but using the riches for the greater good was part of the deal. Bill … (View Post)

I hope if Starmer is not PM on 31/12/26 that @TheScreamingEagles and the other great and good of the PB competition will use their discretionary powers to reward people who got it right with handsome… (View Post)

I know several people who knew Bill Gates well and he seems unpleasant all round. But he had the self awareness, I think, lacking in the other techbros of using his organisation skills and accumulate… (View Post)

I could just about cope with Badenoch as a substitute for Farage, with the near certainty she would be a complete disaster as prime minister. She's lazy, she never thinks anything through, she&#… (View Post)

That might be it. OK to be a police state, but not a nanny state. Singapore is definitely one of those. I am always struck by the admiration of people strongly anti-immigrant for a country that is 90… (View Post)