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As I have already mentioned - the 'poverty' bandied about these days is not real poverty but relative poverty. Are parents going without...

Eccentrics? Are you referring to the majority of the working class as eccentrics? After all, there have to be those with the ambition...

And there we have it, in a nutshell, Jacob. Some people make/find their opportunities and a lot don't. My perception, grown from...

Axminister are ramping up the email ads these days. It may be an indication that they are finding things tough.

You obviously don't move in industrial circles to have ideas about today's working man. Most jobs are tedious. Remember my earlier...

Yes I do, Jacob. I have known many people in my career that have had no desire to better themselves career-wise. They were content...

Hmm...I was working class, but I don't fit your definition, even loosely. Mine was a meritorious career. Started as an apprentice ended...

I didn't like Cameron much but he did give the people a choice on whether to remain in the EU. He went up in my book after that. Johnson...

I'm not sure about that. In my region, the young drivers abound. Nothing wrong with that.

There were two types of poverty, Jacob. The first is the actual poverty where the means to survive is difficult. That was in the age I...

One could argue that if you're not prepared to provide the evidence for your comments then, perhaps, you shouldn't comment. Or, if...

And not forgetting to pay their staff and maintain their buildings and equipment, of course.

Ah, the new-era poverty. That's the one with the new definition, isn't it? The one we used to call relative poverty where some people...

The other grandfather who works at a zoo gave our grandson an ostrich egg. He needed a way to display it and stop it rolling away. The...

That, and it's more likely that someone will 'pull a bird', as they used to say the 60s, in a sports car than and SUV.