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...and how terribly fragile capitalist economies actually are. Cashflow is everything

Whether one likes or dislikes Greta Thunberg and/or her cause, she should really be admired by all: a supremely self-confident diminutive 17 year-old girl somewhere towards the red end of the autism spectrum. 'Self-confident diminutive 17 year-old' is almost an oxymoron, and furthermore her...

The beleaguered beeb have excelled themselves recently. I thought the remake of Scrooge was excellent, though spoilt by the seemingly de riguer inclusion of a sprinkling of the f-word: it ain't tough and it ain't clever Enjoyed Worzel Gummidge, Dracula and Christine Keeler too They still do...

On the contrary, many would agree I reckon. Starmer is by some way the best of the current bunch, which is hardly a ringing endorsement and I'd keep him in the cabinet as Shadow Justice Secretary which is his background after all; and the new government's likely parading of big, tough, hard...

Indeed, though to be strictly correct 'value' isn't a new word I've discovered; rather, one I've used far too much but still struggle to comprehend. Mark Coton and the other village's Gingertipster have been kind enough to offer their help in unravelling this gordion knot of a problem but as a...

I had a tickle at 30.0 just before the publication of the Labour manifesto that the next government will be a LAB/SNP coalition. Should this speculative bet come in I'm concerned it wouldn't be honoured anyway, as Sturgeon has stated she would consider a 'confidence and supply agreement' akin to...

Rugby on ITV, then hours and hours of BBC Parliament A super Saturday indeed Up-and-Under :) Down-and-Over :(:confused:

'Franco Building' https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0007z31/franco-building-with-jonathan-meades Jonathan Meades is a gem

It wasn't a "Remain Campaign" that used public money for the leaflet but Cameron's government who supported Remain. Likewise, now that it's Johnson's government who support Leave they feel justified in spending public money on a leaflet that will, I believe, outline No-deal preparations...

A by-election imminent anyway. Will Johnson 'promise' to hurl a few billion west of Offa's Dyke before polling opens on Thursday morning?

While the faeces hits the fan and the faecal fan the flames all around us Mother Nature provides the salve, as she always has The mental health benefits of spending time outdoors watching nature have been blindingly obvious to me for as long as I can remember. Immersing yourself in nature, even...

He said as much on Sky's paper review last night, fleshed-out with the usual tired sprinklings of 'nanny state' 'hit the working class hardest' 'government shouldn't interfere with lifestyle choices' blah blah Personally I'm looking forward to the return of the original high-tar nicotine-rich...

What on earth is the point of holding TV debates - or any other public debates for that matter - to discuss a race whose two runners are to be decided by 313 conservative MPs and the winner chosen by 100,000 or so conservative party members?

There's nothing nirvanic about Capitalism: it's just the least-bad economic model tried thus far I've long had something of a soft spot for Distributism which I feel has the potential to usurp capitalism at the top of the least-bad tree https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributism

FAO Gigilo Your frequent cut-and-paste jobs are worthwhile but could you please quote the source of the articles and/or italicize the content I, for one, find it difficult to know which are your words and which aren't Quoting sources is good etiquette; not doing so is plagiarism

With NI still counting its 34.9% 'pro' as UKIP still managed 3.3%, so they have to be added to your 31.6% Turnout for the Referendum in 2016 was ~72%, twice what it was for this Remain constituencies showed an increase in turnout from the 2014 elections and leave constituencies a fall I...

Heartening to see the Greens do well. I voted for them too and we now have a Green MEP in Yorkshire, which is nice So far, 'pro-Brexit' parties have 35% of the vote and 'anti-brexit' parties 40%, with the 23% who stuck with Labour and Conservatives unassigned to either grouping The...

The prospect of B Johnson becoming Prime Minster is vomit-inducing; but if it transpires the puke might have the acidity reduced somewhat if he scraps HS2, to which he's lukewarm at best and the Third Runway, to which he's strongly opposed...or was anyway The runners for the forthcoming Prime...

I try and live by the wise maxim "try everything once except folk-dancing and incest" so I've grinned-and-borne snippets of most 'popular' shows but of those mentioned so far on this thread don't recall having seen any I'm a Celebrity..., TOWIE, Game of Thrones, Mrs Brown's Boys, Friends, The...

er... 2017 Election Scotland SNP 59% of the seats 37% of the vote Con 22% seats 29% vote Lab 12% seats 27% vote England Con 55% seats 45% vote Lab 43% seats 41% vote So, seats-wise the SNP do have a slightly better "mandate" in Scotland than the Conservatives do in England but vote-wise a...