McCartney wrote some superb songs - "You Never GIve Me Your Money", "Eleanor Rigby", and "Mother Nature's Boy", particularly. (View Post)

Much of the superiority of that BBC2 schedule, in particular, is nothing to do with money - many of these programmes were cheaper than now - but simply the entirely different ethos that prevailed bef… (View Post)

Britain also had, and still has, a terrible record of long-term investment, and particularly in the 1970's, both feudalistic and adversarial management and equally adversarial unions, however. T… (View Post)

Hmm, as I recall a couple of days back Francis, you were saying the BBC couldn't keep up with Netflix because it couldn't afford to pay actors and directors the same amount. We can't h… (View Post)

If the Russians are genuinely likely to invade Ukraine, Cummings may want to dramatically speeds things up. The window of opportunity may close. (View Post)