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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-55717933 I paid in the old bangers are Aldi this morning but they were a bit sniffy. Cash was refused in a garage the other week. Do you think the retailers are...
Please give Clive Myrie half an hour on one of your digital platforms so he can anchor a sob-fest with close-ups of distressed health workers being close-upped to tears and leave the six o'clock news...
In a question yesterday, it was suggested that the UK could learn lessons from three Asian countries when trying to control the virus. One of them was China. So is this the way to go? Who would like...
Not a specific link to a story but I've been listening/watching BBC and Sky news all morning about tomorrow's inauguration. It seems there are the Trumpettes, the BLM and 25000 troops, all tooled...
(wherever the term ‘smart motorway’ is used - read ‘very dangerous motorway, where if you breakdown and remain in your vehicle, there is a high probability you will die’)...
For letters, anyway, the Royal Mail wants to deliver parcels only on Saturdays. That would suit me just fine. Official letters that need dealing with always seem to arrive on a Saturday when the...
Anyone who doubts the total incompetence of the current "Government" and it's Ministers needs to "catch up" this morning's GMB interview. Piers Morgan and Brandon Lewis. What a waste of space. We get...
i find his comments astonishing, i don't thin he will get re-elected..
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/coronavirus-vaccine-wales-mark-drakeford-19645075...
The service frequented by far right fanatics, Neo Nazis and violent white supremacists was shut down last week. The planning of the Capitol riot was done on Parler. At least 14 Conservative MPs,...
Apparently JK Rowling published an open letter on Wednesday. It’s caused a big stink. It’s about toilets and trans people. Just wanted to read it (the whole thing) out of interest, but alas I can’t...
It’s good to see that the Dutch consider political incompetence a reason for resignation. It’s a shame Boris Johnson and co are not of the same view....
pragmatic solution? or recipe for road chaos? https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-9152047/Petition-allow-driving-instructors-pass-students-racks-nearly-20-000-signatures.html would you sign the...