A similar one to that is I know people who won't tell the Department (whatever it is called) that they can cycle, because an officer or box-ticker of some sort may then assume "Oh you must … (View Post)

That article linked by @Casino_Royale is really interesting - a miscellany of cases. It's best to read all of it. On the case quoted, I'd note that the Personal Independence Payment is a be… (View Post)

That's one reason there is an argument to treat Russians in some way as victims of a several systems treating them for 800 years as a raw material inputs into somebody else's empire, with n… (View Post)

I don't go with that last sentence. Most of the helpers of the Nazis were ordinary everyday people, groomed and manipulated into being beasts, or compliant. I do not know whether, when push come… (View Post)

I'm not convinced by reorganisations as proposed solution. I was working in Oswestry District Council around 2005 when Hazel Blears pulled Shropshire to pieces. Nottinghamshire seems to me to be… (View Post)