Its interesting to see the old political documentaries of the 70s and 80s as a comparison: https://www.youtube.com/@ThamesTv/playlists (View Post)

I see various people are suggesting fixed term mortgages of 10 or 20 or even longer length to be a good thing. I suspect a 20 year mortgage at 7% taken out in 2007 might have been something to regret. (View Post)

Perhaps we could devise various travel routes for Leon. Some of which designed to make an area look as affluent as possible and some designed to make an area look as deprived as possible. (View Post)

Middle class home owners with big mortgages. Middle class home owners without big mortgages will be having their spending power increased as they get interest on their savings. (View Post)

So what are these pandemic preparation breakthroughs which somehow could have happened in 2017-19 but were otherwise missed ? I thought the complaint was that the pandemic plan was good but inappropr… (View Post)