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I don't get it Jacob. I would have thought a dyed-in-the-wool socialist would be proud to say he pays for the NHS. Or do you have some magic way of avoiding income tax, VAT, and all the other taxes the rest of us pay that fund it?

It's always about oil, or in this case natural gas. Russia's biggest export is natural gas and the main pipeline to their biggest customers in Europe passes through Ukraine. Without gas exports Russia would be properly screwed. Putin will never sleep well in his bed while he thinks that pipeline...

I recently emailed Cinch, the car buying company, about the ad they are running on TV. I asked them, if it wasn't too much trouble, to tell that bearded bloke who does their adverts that in America they say 'Anyways' while here in the UK we say 'Anyway'. I got a very nice reply from Alannah...

Casio G-shock for me too. Pretty much indestructible. Shock resistant, 100m waterproof, solar powered and synchs daily with atomic clocks so it's always accurate to within a second. Stopwatch, countdown timer, calendar, five alarms, world clock, two time-zones, auto adjusts for summertime...

The starting point of many an LSD inspired conversation in the 60s 😁

Voyager 1, launched in 1977 to study the outer planets is travelling at 35,000mph and it took 40 years to reach the edge of the solar system. At its current speed, it will have to travel for something like forty thousand years to reach the nearest star in our Milky Way galaxy. It would take...

With respect, it wasn't quite as black-and-white as that. Back in the 80s and 90s I worked for companies supplying process control equipment to heavy industries in the UK, including back then several that were state owned - electricity generation (CEGB), water and sewage treatment (the Water...

I can give you an actual view too. One of my best friends spent two weeks there with his wife on holiday (vacation) a couple of years ago. They went on a package where they stayed with local families, which is a common way to enjoy a holiday there (unless you're American...) Nowhere was off...

I have to admit a sneaking admiration for Cuba. Despite everything the most powerful nation on this planet has done over the last 60 years to crush them they keep hanging in there. One of the many things I learned about Americans during my many visits to the USA is their massively skewed...

I think the problem might be a little more nuanced than that.

It's because China is still considered a 'developing nation' by the UN. The UN Universal Postal Union allows China to ship small parcels at massively subsidised rates and also avoid VAT in many cases. To add insult to injury the subsidies are paid by the destination nations - in the UK's case by...

I've been wearing one of these in the workshop for the last five years (cost me less than five pounds back then). https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/WORK-DRIVERS-JACKET-ZIP-FRONT-COTTON-JK120-/160553919816?_trksid=p2349624.m46890.l49286 Plenty of pockets (none of which fill up with shavings - quite...

Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Sweden are all members of the EU that have retained their own currency.

So you'd rather risk long covid than the fleetingly small chance of a blood clot.

You might regret not having it if you get the disease and then become one of the not inconsequential number of those suffering from long covid in the aftermath. That definitely doesn't sound like fun. And before you trot out some stats suggesting your age group is golden and suffers the least...

This wouldn't have anything to do with today's date would it?

Many years ago, back in the early 70s when I was in my early 20s, I was hitch-hiking on the road between Shaftesbury and Salisbury. It was a hot summers day, there was hardly any traffic, and I was way out in the country, walking along with just the birdsong for company, when I saw a small shiny...

Why on earth would anyone want to holiday in the EU? It sounds like it's total chaos over there, and I speak as a vehement anti-Brexiter. The various government heads, Macron in particular, (who needs a good kick up the arris), have shown themselves up to be total incompetents. There's no way on...

If shops stopped listing prices as £x.99 they would no longer need them for change.

Folding a king-size fitted sheet.