Missed it for a couple of weeks but nothing really changes. Sir Beer took a knife to a gunfight as usual. Big mistake opposing the government boat people plan, as the PM pointed out it's not the...
Cronyism at it's best. Boris has nominated his Father for a Knighthood,in his resignation honours list . He also nominated his Brother for a peerage in 2020, he is now Lord Johnson of Marylebone. Look...
I watched this last night. Excellent performances, most notably from an unrecognisable (great transformation) Tom Hanks playing Elvis's manager, Colonel Tom Parker....
This youtube video captures something quite rare, a politician telling the truth and being insightful about future events. Quite amazing that it is from 2016; it could have been yesterday....
Rishi Sunak has extolled the Windsor framework a fantastic deal for Northern Ireland in giving them access to both the UK and European markets (placing them a unique position in the world), saying...
The son of our next door neighbour is doing HND in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and requires some assistance. He has asked me to help but it's a little beyond me. I told him that I'm sure...
This short Brexit quiz (of 20 questions) is quite interesting - if you want to jump straight to the answers, they are 6 minutes in. The answer to question 8 interested me in that it is claimed that...
Catching up on my delayed delivery of Private Eye, a small article on page 36 caught my eye. The article mentioned a Times obituary for Sir Richard Hartley in which he represented Currie in a libel...
After declining to renew my c £70 Office sub I installed Apache Home Office. MS have taken their revenge by locking my files which can be viewed and printed but nothing else. Has anybody any...
Brexit hit UK investment by £29bn, says Bank of England policymaker https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64623488 That's £1000 per household. I hear our GDP is down 20% from where it could have been...
The Tory policy of ignoring Europe and the pretence that we have reached the sunny uplands is over – reality is beginning to dawn on our government.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXAoNkOLdwE...
Brexit means that farmers are no longer getting any subsidies from the Common Agricultural Policy. Farmers were told in 2016 that the UK Government would pay them the same subsidy. But the truth is...
Driving home from work yesterday evening, the section of all lanes running motorway I use had the left hand electronic signs displaying a warning ‘Report of lane blocked’ with a 60mph speed limit and...
so, if we drive in a van to France, to participate in a track day, with 2 motorbikes in the van, do we need a carnet for the bikes and the van? Online info is so confusing!