I still remember when I started work at 22 taking three weeks off after a few months and being suprised, when I came back tanned and happy, getting my payslip which was the same as if I'd been i… (View Post)

Quite right. The other thing is when the media criticise the PM for turning up at one disaster and avoiding another, then you get a "my disaster was worse than yours but he ignored us" them… (View Post)

Yes the Presidential system is a terrible idea. You elect someone for a fixed amount of time without really knowing if he's any good, and then can't remove him when he screws up. Parliament… (View Post)

Yes, of course. Card did excellent work in improving methodology. The Nobel Prize was definitely deserved. I remember reading his famous paper on fast food wages in Pennsylvania and New Jersey when i… (View Post)

WHO advice was not to restrict travel iirc. I remember the crap Trump got for it. And it didn't stop cases getting to America either. By the time we were thinking about it, it was too late. (View Post)