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I visited an M&S this week for the first time since falling down their escalator in June (not their fault) so it was the first time since last December I was aiming to buy a fair amount of food, including 'special' food for the Big Occasion. I left after a short while with a tiny amount of...

Need and want are two different words!

That has to be good news - a discontented workforce is in no-one's interest, least of all the public's.

Yes, 'auditor' v police videos do not usually see either side cover themselves in glory either in the UK or the USA, which needless to say spawned the habit. There'll usually be one cop with more rabbit than Sainsbury's (inevitably the one with the loosest grasp of actual law or how to relate to...

Or it's the usual Tory ''it doesn't apply to me'' reaction. Actually, I'd be surprised if his 'late call' didn't relate to the enquiry, including by police, into Baroness Mone's affairs, which are sure to incorporate the actions by Hancock's former Department in securing a contract or contracts...

If it's an Amberley book, there won't be much writing beyond captions to the photos.

I've heard two IRA bombs go off, one of which was quite near to my office, but didn't hear another that was even closer to my office on the same morning. The sound was not of a loud bang even from not too far away but a 'thud' the like of which I'd never heard before: nobody else in the office...

This from a man who, with his wife, was 'worth' approx £100 million according to the Daily Express at a time when he was a candidate for the Tory leadership, a sum only dwarfed by the Sunaks' fortune. I know people who live close to his London home, and others in his constituency, and they have...

A lot of the problem seems to be that, even when the greedy supermarkets realised they had to fork out more to secure eggs they paid the increase to the packers of the eggs, being the people they deal with, and those packers only passed on a small proportion to the farmers. Only Waitrose appear...

Divergence of opinion in the BBC commentary team. Agnew thinks the momentum is with England and they'll win, Marks fears the declaration was too generous and Pakistan should win. Either way, it's unlikely to be a draw so long as at least two sessions of play take place, but imo it may boil down...

It was also in December, when turnout is always lower than at other times, especially when the bye election hasn't an added piquancy, which this didn't. The election expert John Curtice thought it about what he expected on the basis of national poll figures i.e. it would produce a Labour...

OK, the case of Exeter University having a campus at Falmouth might be a happy coincidence in the case you cite, but it's not a strong argument for the wrong branding being frequently if not continually seen in operation in non-emergency situations. At the very least, it's naff, at the worst, it...

I can see absolutely no reason why the conduct of the previous MP, which in no way affected his constituents, would influence the casting of votes for his potential successor, or is Mary Whitehouse alive and well and living in the City of Chester?

There is no better version than the original by the Isley Brothers, which of course was a follow-up to Shout, another one which less talented performers made attempts to sing. :)

Talking of six fours in an over, Jimmy Anderson suffered that fate too in Sri Lanka from Sanith Jayasuria in a test match. Jimmy, aged 40 now, becomes the oldest front line England bowler since Gubby Allen in 1948.

I'm as certain as you and Roger1973 that the Central area (i.e. red buses) never had return fares, but I'm not sure about the Country Area (green buses.) From my reading, the Gibson ticket machine that became the norm for bus conductors from 1953 onwards did have a code 'R' for return tickets...

I got a bit caught out with the sling thing. I took it off at the weekend and quite forgot to reinstate it on the Monday morning. On being questioned, I just brazened it out with 'it mended all by itself over the weekend.' Nobody challenged that :) , but I recognised I'd had a 'near miss' and...

A lady teacher? Could they not find a defrocked vicar like at my school, rather than go to such extremes... ;) Biology didn't exist as a subject at my school, but then the earth only having existed for approx 2,000 years at that point made the subject irrelevant. :rolleyes:

Probably to do with the perception of the Democrats being 'soft' on crime peddled by the Republicans gaining some traction (some well-publicised violent incidents on the Subway covered ad nauseam by Fox not exactly helping, though how politicians can make a difference escapes me.) That plus...

Go Ahead can obviously choose what they do but they have no influence whatever on what happens afterwards! 1669495409 You may think it's nothing special, but that certainly wasn't the message coming out of Go Ahead, London General or TfL in the lead-up and implementation. It was the harbinger...