JohnLilburne

A friend's father was Merchant Navy in the war, his only action was a bar fight with the crew of the Graf Spee in Montevideo (View Post)

The Battle of Britain was 85 years ago. That's like me learning about the Boer Wars when I was 10. OK, the BoB is much more important an event than that, but some of my contemporaries' fathers had fo… (View Post)

Maybe the public see Badenoch as useless because she is leader of the Tory Party, and any other leader would be no better. The voters dumped the Tories wholesale only 7 months ago and I don't underst… (View Post)

The issue seems to be the idea that if you have a mental health condition you should not work. Plenty of people work through mild to moderate mental illness, wurh or without periods of sick leave - j… (View Post)

Scrapping an inflationary uplift (which is what Sky says it was) would have saved 1.7%. Not sure that is a lot. And the sort of quick and dirty approach we saw with WFA. The entire benefit system nee… (View Post)