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Never heard that before. A marvellous word, which I will be using forthwith. Never know what one will learn on NSC 👍

Language evolves; sadly, some people don’t.

Lock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up!

Posties have suffered worsening terms and conditions of employment in recent years (the usual Orwellian mantra of 'increased flexibility' and 'modernisation'), increased performance targets, and cuts to their occupational pensions. Not aware of any corresponding reductions to the salaries and...

Usual crass corporate logic - fewer people are buying our product or service, so let's increase the price to increase our revenue and restore profitability :shrug: Meanwhile last year, the Royal Mail CEO was paid £540,000 salary & £140,000 bonus. Typical Privatistion = worse employment...

Oh dear, promoting Trump as the persecuted victim, with all these harridans conspiring to destroy him. Sure, the man who boasts of "grab them [women] by the pussy' is a veritable New Man who respects and reveres women, and is totally devoid of any sense of arrogant entitlement in sexual matters...

Also a damning indictment of decades of 'deregulation' - the populist calls to cut red tape and the much-mocked health-and-safety considerations, and leave everything to 'the market' and higher standards supposedly achieved via competition. Now everyone is promising that 'lessons have been...

Thanks, but can't read because the 'Subscribe Now' pop-up keeps appearing and obscuring the text :(

Taking a break from the Bible - 1/3 the way through, and it is impossible to keep track of the new names and places which appear on almost every page - and about to start Tolstoy's Anna Karenina I know, I'm a glutton for punishment!

I don't like conceding defeat, but I gave up on Bulgakov's Master and the Margarita, Thackeray's Vanity Fair and Ayn Rand's two 'classics' Atlas Shrugged, and The Fountainhead.

I persevered, but struggled with the fact that some characters had more than one name, which made it even harder to follow. I've just started Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, so am braced for more of the same.

Sounds about right - me and Mrs Peteinblack both have the maximum holding, and have each won about £1,200 so far this year, with 3 more prize draws to go.

For arrogant authoritarians and narcissists like Trump, democracy is only considered to be fair when they win. When they lose under the same system, they decide that the system is unfair, and that they've been undermined by a deep state or Radical Left media. Just like the raving Right here in...

Very lucky this month! £275 for me, £250 for Mrs Peteinblack. Great news to start day 2 of our holiday in Fetiyhe :rave:

And new players gel into the team.

Fantastic! I was certain Arsenal would win this, so I'm delighted with a draw. We've now played Man Utd and Arsenal in our first three league games, and are unbeaten. Very happy down here in the West Country :albion2:

Except for the Daily Mail, Daily Express, The Sun, Daily Telegraph, The Times, and GBNews :dunce:

If landlords sell-up, then there will be more homes for renters to buy, so they will no longer need to rent! At the moment, in many cases, when a house is put up for sale, it is snapped-up as an investment by a buy-to-let landlord, thus depriving a couple or young family from buying it -...

Only that it requires surgery, and FH doesn't know how long MOR will be out for; obviously months, rather than weeks.

2-1 to Arsenal - Title contenders (so a narrow defeat would be no disgrace), and I worry that the horrific injury to MOR will have slightly unsettled some of the team.