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Both very English but very different in another way. One was still working in that job well into her eighties, the other died of prostate cancer two years short of retirement age. .

Indeed, such abuse is practiced by small companies too. In one I worked for the chairman had two personal servants at his home, a housekeeper and a chauffeur/handyman. Both also had a very nominal duty in nearby company premises, and in charge of that unit and therefore their nominal manager I...

Not ridiculous at all, it's your stance which is ridiculous and irrational. We all suffer the law and have to obey it, however wrong it may be. When we break it we are liable to arrest. They broke it, they got arrested and should have expected that. When we don't like a law there are legal...

That was what I posted the government should have done in the first instance. The separatist leaders knew they had to have permission for a referendum on separating from Spain (just as Scotland had to) and yet without permission went ahead and broke the law. So their arrest was entirely legal...

I understood that at first sight Tom. I would detest a return to purchase tax, but can believe a government like the present one might seize the opportunity. It's just another of the many dangers that Brexiters seem so ignorant of. .

That's assuming we retain VAT as the only consumer tax. We only adopted it because it was a condition of EU membership, losing our previous very variable purchase taxes. Our governments might well find a return to purchase tax attractive, remember its common rate was 33.3%, with 66.6% on what...

Being of an intensely suspicious nature, I wonder if this is not an attempt at the opposite, showing ourselves as not having any reserves to meet a large departure bill. I wouldn't put it past them. .

Indeed, our private street lights came on for a while at 3.30pm, when the sky darkened. In the South East of England that counts as suffering. :( .

Many of the mainland Continental countries having proportional representation manage it ok, despite some very real political differences. The existence of the EU is proof enough. We need to change our electoral system to benefit the same way, both in politics and among the wider public. .

I doubt any outlet in the field of e-bikes has experience of doing this since they are illegal on either pavements or roads, so usually only sold online. Maybe an outlet for mobility vehicles can help, since they deal with a wide range of systems. .

That's true, but I'd rather they'd refused to have made any of the past concessions they have made and expelled us if we'd got bloody-minded in response. That would have engendered a greater sense of realism in the English population, many of whom are at present living in cloud cuckoo land. .

Once General de Gaulle was out of the way, they always have been our friends. The problem has been that we've not fully accepted that friendship, just wanting to take the benefits while not contributing our share of the costs and not co-operating in the development of the union. That's not...

Not all dictators are bad and not all independence is good. Marshall Tito did a great job in Yugoslavia, infinitely better than what followed after the component countries got independence. .

Here in London we know this only too well. They've been doing this for years to save money, only acting seriously on crimes the government wants dealt with, primarily terrorism and historic sex crime. And the reasons for those are easy to understand. Terrrorism because politicians are...

Don't run away with the idea that all bike parts come from the Orient, they don't. There are companies in Germany making rims and hubs, a French company making chainrings, cassettes, complete bottom bracket sets with pedal shaft and some accessories, Italian companies also making transmission...

I watched with pleasure the London section of the Sunday Politics program today with London MPs Karen Buck for Labour and Bob Neil for the Conservatives. Both confirmed they voted Remain and that in any second referendum they were emphatic that they would vote Remain again. Additionally both...

Sticking with sayings, I think that horse has bolted with our determination to have Trident. Our status as a threat is very much part of the danger I was implying. .

Where the USA is concerned, are you sure there is an r in that last word? .

Agree with AK, I don't see them as reliable friends. In truth they are one and the same thing, only one of those dogs wags the tail. .

In a world of giants thare are only two safe courses for a country like the UK: 1) Become part of a giant like a future USE. 2) Be independently too small and insignificant to bother with. The course we are on to try to be independently small but punch beyond our weight is very dangerous. .