The suggestion that the Monsal trail is either/or is daft. It was a double track main line, it would be perfectly feasible to put it back as single track with passing loops, with the trail on the spa… (View Post)

The trouble with the cultural thing is that unfortunately it's at least somewhat true. I was involved in a saga with a Nigerian chap in his 40s plus his wife and teenage son who turned up during the … (View Post)

I don't think it's the farm changes that are particularly financially damaging. It is the stuff they did on pension pots that makes it harder to pass on small businesses, particularly small businesse… (View Post)

Curse of a new thread (wrote half this post then got called in with my wife for baby 2's 20 week scan) The people who really need help into the workforce are not the really young. They are people lik… (View Post)

I'm not sure she's helping their cause, but it seems implausible anyone else would do noticeably better. Whatever they say, there simply is no answer to the inevitable response of "you had 14 ye… (View Post)