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Saw a Sparrow Hawk on our back-garden fence on Sunday, the second time in 3 years. Beautiful bird, although I worried about the implications for our regular local garden birds, like sparrows (obviously), robins, blue tits, and goldfinches.

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Yet as ever, you never seem to object to the £ millions regularly paid to corporate bosses and shareholders. Bosses paid £ millions, but it's doctors, train drivers, refuse collectors, and the police who you accuse of being greedy. Chairman of Tesco recently had his pay doubled to £10 million...

Besides, "guns don't kill people, people kill people." - or so the gun-lobby and NRA always claim :facepalm:

A tragic irony being that many of these Populists support (and benefit from) the economic policies which have caused this growing inequality and hardship. However, they convince the victims that the real causes of their poverty and hardships are immigrants, liberals, the 'radical Left', and...

Two points dropped :annoyed:

LOL! Yes, I was rude via a Reply-All to an equally rude round-robin email sent by a universally disliked and arrogant senior Professor few years ago. He replied that unless I apologised, via Reply-All, he would report me to HR. So I replied "I apologise for any offence my email caused you...

A lot of the work dumped on academics is created by administrators to justify their jobs - tasks we have managed to do without for years, but have now become a requirement which academics have to meet. So we suspend our teaching and research to fill in another form or write another report ...

Agree, but there is a paradox - the more pensioners who apply for/receive Pension Credits (and related or 'passported' benefits), the more it wipes out the savings Reeves intended to make from reducing WFA!

Where have you got those figures from?

It's often said that we want a Scandinavian quality of public services, but only want to pay United States levels of tax! When people say that "we pay too much tax", I often suspect that what they really mean is that they don't like paying tax - income tax in Britain is average when compared to...

I agree, but with the proviso that the extra money actually goes on front-line staff, not the top-heavy bureaucracy in much of the public sector - there are too many managers who have often not done the job themselves, making damaging decisions on the basis of institutional strategies, arbitrary...

If you read my post properly, instead of hurriedly trying to score a political point, you'd see that I said the thresh-hold at which the WFA was withdrawn should be higher and/or withdrawn gradually in relation to higher income, but the payment itself - like other welfare payments - ought to be...

This is why I think much of the criticism of the policy overall reeks of hypocrisy - people who insist that welfare payments need to be 'targeted' when paid to the unemployed, disabled, and single parents/unmarried mothers, are now acting outraged. That said, I do think Labour have handled...

Possibly an urban myth, but a few years ago, a male TV weather presenter apparently forecast some heavy overnight snow, which never materialised. The next evening, the programme's female presenter, about to introduce that evening's forecast, said: "So, Bob, what happened to the 8 inches you...

Then it's only 6 months to its annual 'Scorchio Barbecue Summer with 4 months of record-breaking killer heat' headline, which usually presages a cool, washout, summer :thumbsup:

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First discovered them via the brilliant Uncertain Smile which always packed the dance floor at the legendary indie nightclub the Phonographique in Leeds in the 1980s More recently, they did the great soundtrack to one of the bleakest films ever, Muscle.

As do his millions of cult-like followers.

Yeah FB allows racist posts - and when I've reported offensive posts, nothing has been done; not even an acknowledgement. Whereas when I once joked about putting bad or greedy employers in front of a firing-squad, FB gave me a yellow card (warned me that my account would be closed for any...