I found my O Level German to be very useful in Eastern Europe in the early 90s, but everyone seems to speak English there now. My French is middling (A Level but rusty and I was never fluent) and the… (View Post)

Surely that reflects that, of the parties currently on offer, Labour are the ones who are most likely to govern as a small-c conservative government, which people from that background tend to support. (View Post)

And in many (most?) cases the winner is a foregone conclusion. Even in the exceptional circumstances of the last election, and with a candidate who had had some, shall we say, personal difficulties, … (View Post)

I face the reverse problem. I have no wish to stay in such a country, but nowhere else to go. And where is safe from this nonsense at the moment, anyway? Three years to work something out. (View Post)

But who makes the money? The insurance company buys a car off me at market value, paid for by all us mugs who buy insurance. Assuming it could be repaired for about £2k, who is pocketing the differen… (View Post)