Efficiency for the NHS - Setup an *internal* consultancy, within the NHS. Its job is to go round improving processes, and joining stuff up. You'll be looking at "We saved 1.46% in area X this ye… (View Post)

I recall when an Australian carpenter asked me for some help with his pay slip/tax - he was getting less than he expected. He’d crossed the threshold to higher rate tax. Very good carpenter - a natur… (View Post)

*Native* trees? (View Post)

I’m not surprised. But then again, I wouldn’t have expected the Biden admin to send them either. An American (former) (semi) strategic weapon hitting targets in Russia? My Russian step-mother remembe… (View Post)

From my oil industry days. A chap from Texas related the following - in his small town, there was a bit of a problem with criminals from Dallas driving out into the sticks and robbing houses. On one … (View Post)