How are state school bullies any better than public ones? And don't all political leaders, or certainly most of them, treat other people as disposable? (View Post)

It's a very weird film - sort of a mixture of a very camp Bond and a Carry On. I can see why it was the only time they tried that formula. (View Post)

No, the average salary in Singapore is S$57k, which is £38k. The average UK salary is £29k. And its average GDP growth over the last decade has been almost 4% while ours has been 1.5%, so the differe… (View Post)

EU countries routinely ignore laws and regulations that don't suit them. See Sweden, for instance, which in theory is committed to joining the euro, but in practice has done everything possible … (View Post)

Yes the lesson that foreign countries may take from this is that forcing us to sign up to ridiculous provisions by extortion and blackmail does not work in the long run. But we're prepared to ac… (View Post)