Basing the government's spending on forecast growth in 5 years time is nonsense on stilts. No one believes the forecasts. (View Post)

Bad news today in the direct debits. Council tax ouch. On the other hand, Fox Jr2 in gainful employment, the beginning of a glittering career no doubt. (View Post)

You can ruin any subject by being taught it. It's why I have long had a jaded view of education, despite being in the education business. I love history, geography, film and literature mostly be… (View Post)

It's the opposite. It was almost impossible to convince management that they had a killer nurse. Indeed the whistleblowing doctors were forced to apologise to Letby. (View Post)

I think Zhou Enlai was misinterpreted in his famous 1971 quote. He understood the question to be about the events of 1968 in France rather than 1789. (View Post)