Property does not generate income - leaving aside the £7500 a year tax free you can get under the rent-a-room allowance and anything similar, and anything else you rent out, such as further rooms, yo… (View Post)

That sounds similar in type to a couple of cases written about by the late Anna Raccoon, for whom I used to contribute. I won't mention any particulars here, out of respect for the blood pressur… (View Post)

I'd rather not have a Blair. One plus of Starmer is that I don't think his self-image will go to his head. I'd hope for a Government that is not seen to do much in the immediate term f… (View Post)

For their time (1960s/70s) they were good - but now almost equally good pizzas are available from the "cooked here" counter in any decent supermarket. I look down on Guardianistas for not b… (View Post)

First person plural subjunctive, known as a very Boris like tense - Hortatory. But Catullus uses the present, so there's poetic license there; probably too busy with Lesbia to work out tenses. T… (View Post)