Weather update: when you can feel the wind in this house, it’s fair to say that it’s windy as fu (View Post)

. Yes, we've heard this ever since - if only we'd let it rip the kids would have stayed in school and everything would have been fine. Basic problem - too many teachers would have been sick… (View Post)

We've stopped training people - and dropped the idea of employers training people. Genuinely though, we need a lot of people to do a lot of grafty unsexy jobs which are going to need to be make … (View Post)

In some regions it went on WAY longer than that. Much of Lancashire (to give one example) had people locked down though all the back end of 2020 as well. (View Post)

But it is though. We are its supplicants. Completely hooked on its industrial production - cars, computers, phones, 702,000 items on Amazon, most of the kids toys being gifted next Wednesday. It isn&… (View Post)