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It's easy to assess Lineker's worth. Compare MotD viewing figures on the days when he is there, and the days when he isn't, and see how many viewers he adds.

That's not unusual. Conspiracy to commit a crime carries the same sentence as the people who turn up in person to commit it. The man who masterminds the bank robbery gets convicted along with the men who actually entered the bank. As for limiting noise at protests - can a protest be noisy and...

Average earnings statistics do tell us something. In this case, they tell us that wages have been falling in real terms for 17 years. You may dispute that (though it doesn't appear you do) but all that would mean is that stats don't tell the full story, not that they tell us nothing..

Nonetheless, I reckon if these individual men and women had not made the decision to form a society, then society as a whole wouldn't have formed it for them. That was Margaret Thatcher's point. If individual men and women choose to do nothing, "society" won't do it either.

People don't cease to be individuals just because they work together. The point is that the volunteers and the people who donate have made their decision as individuals to help out, and it is not a nebulous thing called "society" that has done it.

"In real terms" means after allowing for inflation. That site takes average wages and adjusts them by the Retail Price Index (which takes into account inflation and cost of mortgages) to give a fair year-on-year comparison.

Ronald Reagan had been governor of California for 8 years. The "anyone but Trump" support will obviously vote for him, but then they would vote for anoyone on the Democrat ticket. I don't think Clooney would win the votes of anyone many who are considering a vote for Trump.

The numbers show an average 28.4% increase in wages in real terms while Margaret Thatcher was PM. That's 2.1% p.a. https://www.measuringworth.com/datasets/ukearncpi/ This compares with 1.1% p.a. under Major, 1.5% p.a. under Blair, and since then real wages have been falling - by 0.7% p.a...

The Lancashire cotton industry was almost extinct before 1979. No doubt other industries were struggling, though the motor industry was still strong with British Leyland! ;)...

Food banks are a prime example of Margaret Thatcher's point. You might feel they are being run by "society", but they aren't. They are being run by the individual men and women that she was referring to. Prosperity was undoubtedly improved in the period 1979-1991. Whether or not that was a...

Women got it mostly by a peaceful and respectful campaign by the suffragists as the UK fell into line (before some, behind others) with the worldwide movement for votes for women. Obviously there was a fringe group that went for violence and for more peaceful disruption, but I doubt they were...

She sounds a bit unhinged. Believing that everyone else is wrong and she is right, I don't have a problem with that. Taking action to ensure that everyone else has to do what she wants, that's going past the bounds of normality.

There must have been a lot more money around. No food banks needed.

Sometimes people have very simplistic views on this board. I am happy that simple health and safety rules should be in force. What I want is that health and safety rules should be proportionate to the danger. It's not just a matter of what we have now or none at all. For example, relevant to...

That's true. People (or some of them) who live in desirable holiday areas would be more than happy for Burnley people to stop at home for 52 weeks a year and never have the chance to see the sea. (Though I dare say you'd allow us Blackpool?)

It's widely suggested that the reason Kamala Harris doesn't appear all that much on TV is because they think her public image is, or would be, worse than Biden's.

It would certainly reduce the workload in audiology if they refuse to treat deaf people. There must be more to the story than that. A different hospital for over 55s, perhaps?

I don't remember saying that you wanted to ban Airbnbs. Can you link it please? Be that as it may, you have a point re. the regulations guest houses face. But IMO it would make more sense to reduce their regulation, not increase others. Free market, not big government, for me.

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Not in my view, no. Holidays are a Good Thing.