Robert Heinlein, the Sci Fi writer, was a big proponent of the principle of 'paying it forward', an idea he introduced in his book 'Between Planets'. Indeed there is a whole organ… (View Post)

FPT A more fundamental question - and one that may show my ignorance so apologies in advance and thanks to anyone for putting me right How can any pay rise to teachers in the public sector be inflati… (View Post)

I disagree with that. She could have gone for a more reasonable Brexit approach but instead she sought to out-loon the loons. She never actually understood Brexit or its drivers and instead went for … (View Post)

Not posting much today. Stood a couple of rows back from the stage at Hyde Park watching Frank Turner and waiting for Bruce Springsteen this evening. Pretty damn fine day whatever politics and the wo… (View Post)

As I mentioned several months ago, my mother went in to hospital for suspected pancreatitis. They had her all sorted and ready to go home within 36 hours but in the end she stayed in hospital for 6 d… (View Post)