I agree with your broad %s, and reluctance to disbelieve people in admired institutions (NHS, Met,etc.) is an issue. The main one, though, is unfettered power over people with low social status. Deme… (View Post)

You could just ask them abnout it, say you're happy to give them the job but just want that cleared up? If they're genuine they should be pleased to. I had the same issue when putting some … (View Post)

Do you expect it to happen? I expect lots of fiscal drag, the triple lock becoming the double lock, and some obscure things that only turn up when you read p 537 of the Red Book. Put it another way -… (View Post)

Sorry, been a bit busy - a huge contract to translate the German Highway Code is eating all my free time even though I took today off to hit the first 60K word deadline. 120K to go. Ian is broadly ri… (View Post)

My grandmother used to enjoy the story of walking along the Nevsky Prospekt with her then boyfriend, who was reading the paper as they walked. He looked up and said, "Do you think we should get … (View Post)