I've always had Alistair Darling down as someone with whom I would enjoy sharing a dram. I do love the photo over on the BBC of a younger Darling who looks like a cross between Noel Edmonds and … (View Post)

Yes - iirc it was "There is this shortage (says the computer). YOU FIX IT, OR ELSE." Which meant that SPOs put their own savings in because they were scared. (View Post)

Bearing up thanks - more or less out and about again, and doing my first trip around friends in the south a week before Christmas. Physically I'm slightly worse - not enough exercise, and on a r… (View Post)

I'm not sure on that one. My MP Lee Anderson came across to me as a grandstanding barrack-room-lawyer - asking statistical questions based on multiple sub-categories, then having a go at Civil S… (View Post)

Good morning everyone. An excellent and pungent piece, @Cyclefree - demonstrating the huge problems that can arise from individuals making supericial assumptions, that go unchecked. It's the fir… (View Post)