Reading the hotel discussion, one is struck (and hardly for the first time) by how over-represented upper middle income earners are on PB. Most of you lot would fall victim to the classic politician … (View Post)

Actually, on balance, I think that I am. So long as the Government can actually keep the lights on this Winter, which I think likely, then I at least ought to be OK. Can manage without domestic gas i… (View Post)

In this particular instance it's a PR exercise. The wider haulage industry may be in some trouble but AFAIK there was no particular threat to petrol supplies, until reports of small numbers of p… (View Post)

I thought that one of the silver linings of the Plague was that it had decimated all need for and interest in suit wearing. Are you absolutely sure that it is necessary? (View Post)

There's still (probably) a long time to the election. To turn OGH's arguments on their head, in a typical Parliamentary term - and especially with the myriad of serious problems the Governm… (View Post)