A quick note for anyone who works with knives, especially if you do outdoor, small holding, survival etc. There are a new set of knife regulations coming in in September. TBH they are more coherent t… (View Post)

Edinburgh Tram was an extended festival of rolling, asinine, incompetence shot through with not-invented-here syndrome. How much better could that have been done? (View Post)

When I was working in IT support in City banks in the late 1990s, it was quite normal for Senior-ish support staff (eg team leader / third line) to be getting 100k or more per annum, contracting. The… (View Post)

TBF (slightly) fair to the Tories, iirc Gordon Brown was the man who introduced a routine misleading rhetoric branding revenue expenditure as "investment", during his interminable budget gr… (View Post)

The Triple Lock has added about £10-12 per week iirc over pure CPI linked since it was introduced in 2011 or whenever (last time I ran the numbers). So not ta huge difference between triple locked an… (View Post)