I hope not. I have a $5 bet with a friend in Seattle who I stayed with for 4th July that Trump will beat him. Not sure if it's still on or not. (View Post)

It's inevitable because of their awful funding model. If they were privatised and funded by advertisers or subscribers, they would have much more of an incentive to jump on and exploit successes. (View Post)

Yes, a typical Blairite system. A graduate tax in all but name, but they couldn't call it that, because Blair was desperate to keep taxes down. Still, at least Vice-Chancellors can pay themselves £70… (View Post)

But asset price inflation, especially property, has been much faster than RPI or CPI over the same period, especially at the top end. So HYUFD is right. (View Post)

Houses don't have to be hideous, unlike apparently pylons and phone masts. Some can be stunningly beautiful. But the moronic Angela Rayner has systematically stripped all provision for beauty in hous… (View Post)