I suspect "most people" don't buy many books at all, and of the remainder, most of those will buy online, and of the rest, at the big chains like Waterstones. Running an independent bo… (View Post)

Tough on cliches, tough on the causes of cliches ? (View Post)

The time available to study in the school timetable is not infiinite, so at some point you have to make choices. You can't study everything important at a level of detail that also teaches the b… (View Post)

Yes, that's not allowed in the UK either. But you can design the process to allow all the slow signature comparison to be done in advance and all the checked ballots put into a sealed ballot box… (View Post)

It does not -- MPs (and Ministers) aren't treated as employees, they're "office holders" (see the answer to this FOIA request and this one). So the PM is not 'firing' a … (View Post)