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Whatever actually happens, the attitude and incompetence shown by LT and KK has fatally undermined them. And this morning's local radio interviews didn't help. It is all very well procaliming belief. But it is the irrational belief that is akin to religion they are showing. Not the belief based...

Technically, a vote of confidence is under the control of 1922. But a vote of no confidence can be initiated by the opposition (or, I believe, theoretically by any other party). (British Constitution according to Wiki. :) )

It might be somewhat more characteristic of a woman who has had to (chosen to - it's not compulsory) go through the political career path. With all that entails.

Ironic (yes, intentional backward reference) - I really don't believe it is their womanhood per se which has been the problem. But them as individuals. The result might be, as you sort-of imply, no more female tory PMs. Mind, many males haven't been so much better. Perhaps it is time for a...

The president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, has said on Twitter that he has had a phonecall conversation with the prime minister, Liz Truss, prompting some to ask if he could get a message to her to appear in public and address the unfolding financial crisis in the UK. :)

NATO has never had all members totally in agreement. Imagine if Russia had joined NATO (leaving aside EU membership for this thought). Then Russia had decided to barge into Crimea? What then? Imagine having somehow got away with Crimea, he barged into Ukraine, as he has. What then? Very...

Perhaps Putin would understand if Germany started proclaiming that Königsberg was always an integral part of Germany? Kaliningrad just an aberration. (Of course, like all such claims, it is nonsense to try to rollback history like that.)

Don't worry folks! All is well now - at least in Wales. :) The Price and Princess of Wales visited Anglesey / Ynys Môn and Swansea / Abertawe yesterday. Funnily enough, we'd made our first trip to England in years. Me making a silly comment about who the Severn / Hafren bridge is named after...

And this is a clever cover:

It’s now down back below $1.07, having recovered to $1.09 earlier this afternoon.

Yes - I saw that. And more recruiting offices have mysteriously started burning. And, probably not obviously connected, a school shooting.

We are not in control of recruiting from around the globe. That is being forced on us by our inability otherwise to source the required skills. And we still need to provide some sort of support even to "illegals".

It's better for our economy to prevent illegals working and to spend fortunes recruiting others? If we spent on training what we need, that would make more sense.

I haven't noticed the government asking those on rubber boats whether they are skilled in medicine, care, even agricultural work. It would appear to make more sense to ,make use of their presence than to positively recruit and "import" others from round the globe at enormous cost.

The answer is 1.0753. Which comes after 1.0349 on some Asian markets. (Adding, some reports as low as 1.0327.) And interesting how at least one paper refers to it being the lowest since decimalisation. Which suggests some deep-seated need to revert to £sd.

That's around what I currently expect - but there is still the possibility of something happening that none of us has anticipated which might affect the number it reaches. Either way.

Any bets on where GBP will be against USD at, say, 10:00 BST on Monday morning?

Seems obvious! But if they are trying to scrimp on copper... Also, the backboxes were not full depth. I'm not there now, but if you simply replaced a socket, even with same locations for the wire, it was tough. I'd choose the shallowest replacement socket to make it slightly easier.