I work in a very working class world, with blokes doing the hard physical bits of heavy engineering. Every single one of them voted out in the EU ref, (one lad in his early 30s had never voted for an… (View Post)
A lot of the explanations for that I've seen have been somewhat flawed, because herd immunity isn't something which just happens at a certain level, it's more a description of one end of a sliding sc… (View Post)
Depends enormously on the nature of the business. My employers shut up shop for a few weeks in the first lockdown - we literally just locked our engineering works up and walked away. Took a couple of… (View Post)
Going to be great for those like me who live alone, as well as terribly hard on my parents who are likely to not meet their first grandchild (my sister's baby) for four months. It's just not worth it… (View Post)
There are two major problems with the UK railway system. One is that it's the last bastion of 70s style unionism, the other is the dead hand of the Dft trying to micromanage things it doesn't underst… (View Post)