I had one hotel in Bangkok where there were no batteries in the room safe, and I couldn't make the guy on reception understand what the problem was. I presume the last guest had stolen them! It didn'… (View Post)

Google suggests they are paid to election day and they are allowed to campaign in work time, indeed when there is no parliamentary work to be done. Political parties should pay allowable out of pocke… (View Post)

Surely it is if you are an MP, and in any case they earn enough so they can be expected to clothe themselves. (View Post)

I used to go to work in a suit. I earned an awful lot less than Starmer, but funded it myself. (View Post)

The problem is that minimum unit pricing forces poor alcoholics to buy less food, and has no effect on better-off alcoholics (View Post)