I'm not too bothered about haircuts, shopping or cafes. I quite like working from home. I rather miss the pub, and holidays, though. We all have different things we are missing. (View Post)

Why not be honest about the "can I book a holiday?" question. The answer is, depends on how risk averse you are. You can if you like, but only if you are happy to have it indefinitely defer… (View Post)

Belgium isn't quite contrived. It's the Catholic part of the Netherlands and remained under Spanish (and later Austrian) control for over 200 years after the Dutch had won their independence. Having … (View Post)

There's a great opportunity for micropubs in retail units, with no pubco or brewery tie. In parts of the South East, commercial rents have been too high for the model to work. (View Post)

I suspect parts of government have fighting over this, with one department maybe dragging its feet. Of course government suffers from "not invented here" so just putting another country's s… (View Post)