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)

On FTTP, we are fortunate to have Gigabit broadband upload and download for £33 a month and could have 10 Gbps for £150 if we wanted it; all despite living in a converted barn on top of a hill in the… (View Post)