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My deepest sympathies. Words are not enough. My uncle also went to an early demise through vodka alcoholism.

And do you actually believe that an insurance-based health system wouldn't be performing similar gouging and possibly assisting the gouging to further increase, through exclusive deals, kick-backs and preferred suppliers? Wow! Perhaps you don't actually believe that, but just wanted to make a...

Has anyone on here ever taken a damaged car to a body-shop? Have they had experience of how much the body-shop would charge the insurance company to fix the damage, and then a different, reduced cost, if you were to pay for the damage repair yourself? That ought to be all the experience that...

So what you're saying is that businesses are greedy. Profiteering, perhaps? Thanks. But I think we already knew that. So why is this somehow the fault of the NHS or the govt or the tax payer? I don't understand what point that you're trying to make, and I wonder even if your point is...

I can confirm through direct experience that parachute material is waterproof enough to make a dry shelter. Given enough material, you'd have an outer an an inner with a small air gap.

Don't be disingenuous - his post was all about everyone should to pay tax, and pay enough tax to fund the NHS as well as all of the required Public Services.

If we want to be "fair" about the recent budget - dispassionate, and cold, non-partisan - "fair" analysis would lead to the following deduction: Of the tax rises announced yesterday, despite the fact that they were "announced" by Labour, the taxation liability was put in place by the previous...

So long as (CO2-based) VED is reduced at the same time, then this would be fair - the less used car is the one that outputs less CO2.

That just isn't true. As well as your previous comment on the NHS staff not being concentrated enough in medical practitioners. In truth, the NHS has LESS management staff than any equivalent sized organisation - it's a myth and a fallacy - a lie, basically, but "mud sticks", and "too many...

Do you think that is a "fair" assessment of this particular budget? I'd say not. The reality of the situation is that Tory have left an extremely bad Public Finance situation. Anyone with eyes can see this to be true. How else would you propose we fix our Public Finances?

Yep - I was thinking similar - could be the minimum wage rises - but for this relatively small blip to prompt a business to close just appears to be very suspect. I agree, although it was also clear that this was a budget that they didn't want to be forced to have to do. Just seemed sensible...

And it is what led to a range of "compensation" schemes where it was proven that endowment pre-purchase illustrations displayed unrealistic growth margins

Did I say "incorrect"? I don't think I did. What I said was half truth. Omission and a Cherry Picking. For example, when you declare "Labour" have frozen tax allowance, that is a Cherry Pick. The omission part here is that the allowance rates were frozen already. By Tory. (You know, the...

Another half truth, I see.

I want some of what you're smoking, mate. You aren't looking at the same budget as me! At least not the official one - interested to know where you're getting some of this misinformation from.

The fact that the 2 x shelving widths almost exactly match the width of the frame is a complete (and happy) coincidence - I didn't know whether I'd be cutting a sliver off one of them, or adding a "tool channel" at the front wall interface - but was prepared to do either... Clearly, there is...

Concentrated on getting an accurate and consistent level across the worktop Frame pretty much complete: Re-purposing some old Ikea shelf boards for the worktop Which needed rebates cut into them to make them fit properly

At which point I was almost out of screws A pre-emptive order the previous day meant that the A to Z delivery saved the day Which allowed the fun to continue

Almost at the culmination of this stage of build. The back wall is in. The windows are in. The rear shelving is in. And finally the worktop counter (I hesitate to call it a "workbench") is nearing completion :) Worktop progress pics... The single corner support leg base is fixed to an...

Employment allowance will be increased from £5,000 to £10,500, reducing national insurance for smaller businesses.