There’s a good diversion for the day: which is the one concert I would relive if I could… for me it would be either Lynyrd Skynyrd at Leeds Uni (Feb 13 1977) or Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers … (View Post)

Hurrah… @HYUFD has been drawn into a discussion on grammar schools… in the meantime, we need reassurance that whilst at Goldman Sachs, Sunak didn’t build the spreadsheet used to support Greece’s Euro… (View Post)

Is not the most significant aspect of joining the CPTTPP that it gives the U.K. a veto over the future accession of China? Would the U.K. accept their membership if both the US and EU were opposed? (View Post)

I worked with someone in the late 80’s who moonlighted as a courier and would regularly get sent on Concorde to deliver documents to an address in NYC… return in economy on a 747 (View Post)

In 1989 paid £1,500* for Concorde -> NYC -> 5 nights in Waldorf Astoria -> QE2 to Southampton… seemed a bargain at the time. Edit: *£3,674 in today’s money (View Post)