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Your wife should try an induction hob. It is, without dounbt, more responsive and less wasteful than either gas or ceramic with elements, as the energy produced only heats the pans, which heats the food, and not the surroundings.

Wood burning fires/stoves have been on the increase for a while. So it's news when somebody has the balls to stand up and tell it like it is. In my youth, coal fires where the norm but as the years went by the smog and soot became less toleralble so 'smokeless' zones appeared. At about the...

I agree. I've had a pension pot which I've accrued over a lot or years from an employer's pension scheme. I decided that, since this money was extra to my income. I'd use it as a small monthly pension and the rest as retirement drawdown money. The fund has already accrued, over the last 30...

Public satisfaction is based on feelings. The feelings after the pandemic were low. No government was going to survive that strength of feeling The number of rich people is pretty irrelevant. You're assuming that having more rich people means we have more poor people which is not the case. The...

Nice but not true. I look around and see good jobs, fair pay and people with good cars, houses and frequent holidays abroad. 45 years ago, you wouldn't have seen much of that in the UK. Now, we'll have a Labour government for a term, before the populace remember just how bad they are and then...

In my time, with an electricity board, as an apprentice, we went through Time and Motion studies. We were all apprehensive about whatefect it migh have on our salaries. It tuned out that salaries were unaffected by productivity. That the times used by the T&M guys were to generous. When I ended...

Your imagination is confused. Have you ever been to the SW? It's mainly rural with a couple of cities and a load of little towns nestling on the coastlines. It's a far cry from Cumbria but then, that area is quite a busy little place. The Lake District is good for a visit but overcrowded in the...

I think we did the - "identification with one's own nation and support for its interests, especially to the exclusion or detriment of the interests of other nations"bit from the 1500s onwards. Trump is far right and appeals to those who are far right. He wants to own the country and will use...

Yeah, my bad. One of those times when you leave the keyboard in a hurry without checking. The last sentence should have read - They don't want what a few others think they should have. One word too many and one missing - not bad for me...

Democracy is not about educating the plebs. Like that wouldn't be fraught with accusations of brainwashing, would it?

You can wrap up authoritarianism anyway you like but it's still authoritarianism. Remember, the people get what the people vote for, for whatever reasons. They don't want want a few others think they should have,

It is fortuitous that we left when we did and, when we have paid off the EU what legacy contributions are due, we can watch as the EU struggle without having to contribute any more.

It's difficult to observe the 'lasting impact' of Brexit on the heels of the pandemic and the subsequent downturn of the global economy.

Little point, indeed. I will stick with what I know. I haven't seen any 'sensible points' that have swayed my views. The decision was made, the government acted and we move on. That the pandemic happened so soon after the referendum served to confuse some into believing that Brexit and the...

Yes, the people did decide, by democratically voting in the referendum. The decision, however, wasn't legally binding and the government didn't have to accept it. But it did. I think it was mainly a case of being nervous about seemingly ignoring the democratic outcome. All of the electorally...

Good. Serves you right. Isn't hindsight a wonderful thing. It must be if Starmer is anything to go by. I remember the decisions to lock down and they were made with due consideration to the need for isolation with the, likely, mental health of those affected. The decision was left until the...

In the same vein, I, too, amazed and saddened that nobody since Thatcher has done any better than Boris and yet he has been vilified by those who wanted to remain in the EU for gain, rather than what was best for the country. Of course Boris lied. Who doesn't in politics? And he wasn't going...

I liked Boris. He was charismatic, unlike any of the major politicians now, and he got a lot done under his term in office. He was called a lot of things but he achieved a lot of what the people wanted, and was in the ascension...until the pandemic, and the world economic dowturn. He was was...

The people decided. The people, for whatever reasons, chose Brexit and the government chose to honour the result and acted accordingly. Those are the decisions we all have to live with, like it or not. If the people could never understand the reasons and consequences behind a vote then...

No, they voted for it AND were in favour of it... It was Cameron who gave the electorate the referendum thinking that the issue would resolve itself when the result was what the government wanted. Sadly, the outcome didn't go the way he thought it would and shuffled off quickly, only now...