People behave differently on holiday though. The endless 'when can we go on our holibobs' questions on the daily conference drove me mad. That's the only thing I'd argue we could … (View Post)

Well, quite. Would it have been politically possible to lock down earlier anyway? To do such an unprecedented thing required the population as a whole to accept that such a thing was necessary. Two w… (View Post)

There's going to be a lot of noise and very little light from the reporting on this, which was utterly predictable. At the time nobody thought the vaccine would be available so soon, so the only… (View Post)

The 40% income tax rate was too much for me. What with NI as well that's close enough to the magic 50% mark. I refused to pay it and dumped what I could in a pension and cut hours. Because I dum… (View Post)

I spy the weather forum inhabitant! Warm Irish Sea innit. North York Moors are the place for skis today: https://www.northyorks.gov.uk/nycc_weather_cameras/cameras/12918?1763556861956 (View Post)