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I don't know of anybody at all who has chosen "a benefits lifestyle" lets face it if they exist at all it's not a good choice! I know of plenty who have been there briefly out of necessity, including myself. I had to sign on for two weeks minimum to get on to a TOPS course (fast track C&G...

I admit to owning quite a lot of them. Mostly duplicates and/or ventures into the unknown. I only need two though, and a strop for fine finishing occasionally. Still got my first - a 6x2" coarse/medium oil stone from Woolworths about 1962, probably 2/6 i.e. "half a crown" (about 12.5p new...

Your idealised (ideological) capitalism is pretty much the Robinson Crusoe idea - that we can just snap out of it, pull ourselves together, pull ourselves up by the bootstraps, as though we are new arrivals on Crusoe's uninhabited island (which also happened to have plenty of available food...

So crammed with tired cliches and half baked ideas! An imaginary world.

Are you a "capitalist" in the ideological sense - that unrestrained free-market business is best for everybody in the long run by virtue of the trickle down effect? What do you think of this chap:

Authoritarian without a doubt. Not a socialist - I doubt he could even say the word without tight lipped facial contortions! The party could have more control if they wished to, but face it - he has purged the left in a very old fashioned dictatorial manner. No night of long knives but more a...

Yes it does. Unless you've discovered another niche - or does it exist already and have a name? How do you feel about right-wing tripe?

It's the basic assumption behind conservative thought. There's a clue in the name! It was expressed many times by PM Lord Salisbury, one of the founding fathers of conservatism https://www.alistairlexden.org.uk/news/why-do-we-need-change Hence "The Salisbury Review" and similar nonsense. In 1879...

No it could not. Do you really think the NHS and welfare state are steps towards communism? Nobody proposes "equal wealth". Rather a steady flow of redistribution much like we have now, but more so as and when necessary. There is no divine right to excess wealth. Even if possible why on earth...

Thats because you are wrong about everything! 🤣 No I'd rather leave it in. Some inheritances have roots in the Norman conquest! It isn't a belief system. It's just support for the simple notion that the state should work "for the many not the few" Of course they are not. But generally they...

Nothing sad about that, they are not carved in stone, more just loose general descriptions. Very much what we have here. Some state ownership, a lot of private enterprise, lots of control and regulation by the state. We are all socialists now. Capitalism is also a very vague term. At one end...

Depends on what you think socialism is. You seem to be spooking yourself with some particular definition of your own making! 🤣 A lot of people do this - it saves having to think about things. Examples? What did you have in mind?

Completely the opposite, though it can be done badly of course. It is under continuous attack from the right and the very wealthy who see it as a threat to their ill gotten wealth. 🤣 Weird thing to say - it's the right who push for low wages and exploitation of immigration as everybody knows.

No you've missed the point. Yes. And inheritance, opportunity, family, societal support and many other things. More that a Monopoly game is like life. We already have draconian measures in place - about 50% of GDP is public spending on infrastructure and so many other things to make life...

Takes two to tango - post soviet states also choosing to look west? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied_intervention_in_the_Russian_Civil_War I tend to agree. USA is world's leading terrorist state in many ways. Sponsoring the Israeli terror as we speak - as is the UK. with our so called...

What usually happens with the board game is that any advantage gained, whether by luck or judgment, tends to grow, until the game becomes so unbalanced that others go "bankrupt" as property accumulates in fewer and fewer hands. Very analogous to the so-called "free market". Thomas Piketty says...

Gratuitous insults and bad tempers are the often the last resort of someone losing an argument! If everybody had believed the endless guff coming from the right we would still be in the middle ages. Then it was the divine right of kings, now a wider and easier target - the "untouchable" rights...

Not on the J4 There is not, except for two little holes in the spindle to fit the right sized chuck wrench thingy (see above) Not possible with the J4 and others. More or less the only way is to work one face plate against the other, opposite threaded, which @PTomo seems to have discovered...

this is why HMRC needs beefing up. The ones that aren't mobile are easier to tax, the ones that are can be more complicated. No reason not to make the effort. I never said it was. Thats why HMRC needs beefing up. and everybody else too in general. So you are saying that there is no point in...

If you are going to use a VCL it might as well be on both sides as foil backed plaster board. If you want a good degree of sound proofing than the classic is the double stud wall. Not twice as thick as the studs are staggered between each other...