Aberfan happened under a nationalised industry and the failings that led to the disaster were due to ignorance and negligence, not the capitalist pursuit of profit. There were no great cost implicati… (View Post)

It was ever the case I am afraid Ben. Back in the early 2000s I was earning about £40K a year. Brown had introduced working/child tax credits and I got a letter telling me I should fill out all my de… (View Post)

Happened in Newark last year. Made the local paper so presumably fairly rare. (View Post)

I think my main problem with them is there are a couple of things that can go wrong that are 'almost' impossible to detect in advance and which, if they fail, can only lead to catastrophe. … (View Post)

There are some things worthy of a bit of a brag. (View Post)