As has already been pointed out the amounts claimed by the Treasury as the hit on pension funds are tiny. In 2021 the total value of UK pension funds was just under £3 Trillion. Even taking the upper… (View Post)

I agree and initially 'liked' your comment. But thinking about it, I think it could very reasonably be claimed that saying someone should be shot might be considered incitement to violence.… (View Post)

It goes all the way back to the 90s under Major and Blair and the false ideas about a 'peace dividend' resulting from the fall of the Iron Curtain. People in power were stupid enough to thi… (View Post)

Actually if (a big if) what the Treasury are saying is true it is not the current Pensioners who would be losing out but those still in work who will be future pensioners - the younger ones like me. … (View Post)

I had a similar experience staying in an old hotel in the centre of Sfax in Tunisia. We were right opposite the main mosque and being woken before sunrise was something I never managed to adjust to. … (View Post)