Christmas bonus and a mid year bonus, IIRC It's a con, since the monthly wage is lower to make up for it. (View Post)

Lincoln suggested* buying out the Southern slaveholders, late in the Civil War. Because the monetary cost would be less than finishing it militarily. And with lots less dead people. *some say this wa… (View Post)

They are closer than you think. Milei, under the populist stuff is enacting anti-populist policies. Pretty much classic IMF-shrink-the-state-to-match-the-tax-base stuff. His denunciation of tariffs i… (View Post)

It is basically impossible, in domestic small building (think loft conversion scale) to not be massively in breach of regulations. Because paying double for paperwork is simply not pssoible Mr & … (View Post)

The formal complaints are in, with the charity commission. I’ve been asked not to name them, by the complainants. Until the Private Eye story on it comes out. (View Post)