Stokes took a wicket immediately after the crowd heard the news he was retiring. (View Post)

Stokes is retiring. I will miss him. Best England captain since I became aware of Test cricket in 1993. (View Post)

VAT is not levied on books, which are a discretionary purchase, but governments have taken the view that encouraging reading is a public good. I have some sympathy with the idea that encouraging educ… (View Post)

Burnham was born in 1970. House prices have since gone through an enormous boom relative to anything else. Using today's house prices to judge the class of the inhabitants of those houses 50 yea… (View Post)

Ukrainians on social media are having fun with videos that upset Russians are sharing, distraught about the fuel crisis. In one recent video a woman is crying as she recounts how she spent two hours … (View Post)