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)
Tories thrashed in Rishi’s backyard… despite pulling in activists from the furthest reaches of North Yorkshire… will be most amusing if another by-election means NYCC goes NOC just as it become the u… (View Post)