I am old enough to remember when young women wore Laura Ashley. Indeed Mrs Foxy wore a Laura Ashley wedding dress when she married me aged 23. It still looks great in the wedding photos. (View Post)

If the government ignores the Independent Pay Review Boards*, then it is the government that has chosen free collective bargaining, not the unions. * which include strong government representation. (View Post)

Are those figures income corrected? I don't think so. (View Post)

Increasingly the problem in the world is that people are unwilling to empathise with people unlike themselves. Sartre was nearly right: Hell is othering people. (View Post)

Calling the Pope "Woke" further demonstrates how meaningless the word has become. That said, he was better than most Popes, though that is a pretty low bar. (View Post)