Me too. I vaguely think that paying by bank card diverts some of the revenue from TfL to the bank. But I agree with David's point - it's ridiculous and clearly biased to the elderly to allo… (View Post)

Generally speaking people say Budgets are good for the country but not for them as individuals - I suspect this will be rated similarly. People are giving Sunak a bit of leeway for the difficult situ… (View Post)

Labour's funding position is not as bad as commonly supposed - debt is zero (used to be £millions), and the flood of legal cases during the squabbles in 2019+ has largely dried up. Unite has bee… (View Post)

One hospital pass that is mooted is allowing local councils to raise council tax as much as they like without a referendum. Coupled with central cuts in public spending, I'm not sure I've e… (View Post)

The logic of some of yesterday's posts is that NATO should now declare war on Ukraine. Essentially it was always clearly an accident that didn't justify escalation by anyone, and the fact t… (View Post)