The interesting question is why. There shouldn't be all that much to a basic house. I suspect building regs demanding ever more impossible standards of energy efficiency has a lot to do with it - the… (View Post)

IR35 is a stupid and iniquitous peice of legislation. I don't have employees, only subbies, which suits all of us nicely. They don't just work for me, although they do more work for me than they do f… (View Post)

That's an unusual take - the Hitachi stuff hasn't generally been very well received as it rides poorly and has particularly uncomfortable seats. Theres also been the cracking fiasco - if you read the… (View Post)

The Tory candidate is a decent bloke and fairly well known in the area - I'm not sure what who he works for now, but when I first ran into him he was an MOT tester, which is a job where you meet a lo… (View Post)

Why should (1) be banned? It seems to be an article of faith that someone's sexuality is a sort of immutable characteristic, which cannot, and must not be changed. But why? If say a gay man wants to … (View Post)