I imagine demand is quite hard to profile, and various factors (estates, training, institutional silos) make it hard to move people around dynamically in the way that supermarkets can open more tills.
November 27, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I imagine demand is quite hard to profile, and various factors (estates, training, institutional silos) make it hard to move people around dynamically in the way that supermarkets can open more tills.
@youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com has pointed out the same problem
November 23, 2025 at 2:23 PM
@youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com has pointed out the same problem
I remember this man in Oxford. I didn't realise he could afford $4m homes.
November 14, 2025 at 11:54 PM
I remember this man in Oxford. I didn't realise he could afford $4m homes.
That the panel won't read...
November 10, 2025 at 12:46 PM
That the panel won't read...
Pet Shop Boys go garage?
October 31, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Pet Shop Boys go garage?
Really enjoyed your Dutch and Rhine books - cheered me up during lockdown when we could hardly leave the house. Will be adding this to my Christmas list.
October 29, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Really enjoyed your Dutch and Rhine books - cheered me up during lockdown when we could hardly leave the house. Will be adding this to my Christmas list.
Well, one big difference is demographic. Working age people are a much smaller proportion of the population than they were in 1948. It is great that people are living longer, but they eat up a lot of government spending on state pensions, the NHS and social care.
October 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Well, one big difference is demographic. Working age people are a much smaller proportion of the population than they were in 1948. It is great that people are living longer, but they eat up a lot of government spending on state pensions, the NHS and social care.
Looks beautiful. Where are you?
October 5, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Looks beautiful. Where are you?
Some things just aren't jokes.
September 16, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Some things just aren't jokes.
John Tydeman next!
September 5, 2025 at 5:22 PM
John Tydeman next!
Sorry to hear that! We've been taking it gently in the Cevennes . Up to the Loire tomorrow.
August 12, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Sorry to hear that! We've been taking it gently in the Cevennes . Up to the Loire tomorrow.
Thing is, that's not really true. Have a look at Dan Neidle's thread from about a month ago. Small business is very bad at paying the taxes due.
August 1, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Thing is, that's not really true. Have a look at Dan Neidle's thread from about a month ago. Small business is very bad at paying the taxes due.
Everyone wants SMEs to thrive; the point is that they should do so by having something people want to buy, rather than by having a tax treatment that allows them to undercut more efficient competitors.
August 1, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Everyone wants SMEs to thrive; the point is that they should do so by having something people want to buy, rather than by having a tax treatment that allows them to undercut more efficient competitors.
Why should they pay and not you? Because they are more successful?
August 1, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Why should they pay and not you? Because they are more successful?
So you want a subsidy from successful businesses to failing businesses?
August 1, 2025 at 11:12 AM
So you want a subsidy from successful businesses to failing businesses?
Watching it these days, I think it has a fairly consistent political world-view, in the way that something like Dad's Army simply doesn't.
July 31, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Watching it these days, I think it has a fairly consistent political world-view, in the way that something like Dad's Army simply doesn't.