I have always thought that flight tax should be a proportion of the price of the flight, so those of us going to Thailand in steerage will pay a lot less than the people in Business (View Post)

You can have fun while not pissing money up against the wall. Which allows you to retire and become a net spender rather than a net saver earlier. And, for example, my £200 Nokia XR20 serves me as we… (View Post)

The problem is that benefits proliferate, and the benefit cap doesn't generally apply to disabled people. So you can have a couple on UC caring for disabled children, can get PIP themselves, add in C… (View Post)

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)