...after telling girlfriend to 'pray for me' //Simon Cheng Man-Kit has not been seen for 12 days after he failed to return to work after a business trip to Shenzhen in China....The Foreign Office has...
//Jeremy Corbyn will jet off on four-day fact-finding trip to Ghana while he is supposed to be getting MPs behind his mission to become Prime Minister….. He plans to win a confidence vote in the...
Could that be described as an oxymoron from a moron? //Jeremy Corbyn has urged the leaders of the other opposition parties and Tory rebels to install him as caretaker PM in order to stop a no-deal...
My husband delved into the little basket in our bathroom cupboard this morning in search of a new toothbrush – and discovered 18 of them. I know I over-buy at times but 18 new toothbrushes! I blame...
.... and holocaust memorial exhibitions abandoned? Is visiting these places just sick - or is it important to maintain them along with all the evidence they preserve ... lest we forget? Have you...
Anyone else read it? Based on a true story, the result of the author’s interviews with the main character. Poorly constructed and such a wasted opportunity for a writer. A huge disappointment....
The recent thread on this has been removed, so here’s a new one without the advertising. I would particularly like derekpara to repeat his recollections of Arnhem if he would be so kind. I could...
Have you ever met anyone who boasted about their life – and you subsequently discovered they were trying to pull the wool over your eyes? We met a couple on holiday once…. she was ‘in fashion’...
An acquaintance has a daughter who has two children from two different fathers, neither of whom are now with the family. Both children are badly behaved, the elder having been suspended from school...
I’m looking for a basic machine that will just record from television to DVD. I don’t want fancy functions - just a recorder - but ‘unfancy’ seems hard to come by. Does anyone have any idea...
//Labour’s nationalisation plans will clobber 300,000 former workers from the coal and steel industries. The pension pots of mineworkers, staff at British Coal and British Steel include investments...
This made me sick to my stomach. A bird feeding its chick a cigarette butt. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-48842178 I was listening to a radio discussion about waste. It seems that last...
With renovations to their home costing the tax payer £2.4M, and with their apparent quest for a life more private than that enjoyed by other prominent members of the royal family, are Meghan and...
//Jeremy Corbyn has called for an inquiry after a newspaper reported two civil servants had said he was "too frail" to lead Labour or become PM.....The article in the Times - published on Saturday -...