Large don't know figure - watch that get whittled down and moved to the bad deal column by the relentless activity of the Press and Farage. That's the main reason British politics is how it… (View Post)

The problem is that the payment is small beans, so by creating a tailored threshold they create a lot of expensive bureaucracy which wipes out the savings from restricting payments. The threshold the… (View Post)

I am - deities willing - a week or so from completing the purchase of a house, at long last. The estimated population within 1km of the house is 75, and doubtless I am about to spend and borrow a con… (View Post)

Apparently DOGE fired a bunch of weather forecasters, so the US can't issue weather warnings for tornadoes overnight, quite likely leading to some avoidable deaths recently. The measure of the i… (View Post)

So much for the argument that Trump would intimidate Putin into a ceasefire by being unpredictable. Trump is entirely unwilling to do anything to intimidate Putin. Trump is embarrassingly craven towa… (View Post)