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To be fair, cities with a large Asian population do struggle to get them to watch football. For example, Mumbai has a population of 17 million or so, and their football team won last year's Indian Super League - but they play in a stadium with a capacity of 6,600. (I don't know if they fill...

The one I listed was a Grandma's Breakfast. For black pudding, hash brown, and extra bacon and sausage, you have to go for Grandad's breakfast for £6!

Surely that depends what the request is? Obviously if harissa is an ingredient in one of those dishes beloved by Masterchef where the ingredients are all piled together, then it's not going to be practical to leave it out. But if it's just a matter of not putting beans onto a plate, that...

All national anthems are rubbish. It's like the best man's speech at a wedding - you expect it to be rubbish, you just hope it's short rubbish not everlasting rubbish. At least ours is short. If people don't like God Save The King because it mentions a God in whom they don't believe and a...

Living longer is a risk for all cancers. A fat person who has died of a heart attack is at zero risk of cancer, while the thin person who has lived to grow old is at great risk. If we split causes of death in 4 categories. 1, death caused by overweight; 2, death caused by cancer not affected...

It would be impossible to say, because so much of wealth is vested in the value of companies, which would become pretty much worthless if no-one could profit from them, and in land, which would also be pretty much worthless because no-one could sell it. Credit Suisse reckoned in 2022 that the...

I think we've done more than just make a start. My father (born 1928) lived in a rented house with an outside toilet and had to leave school at 16 to get a job. He married at 27 and, because he was a chartered accountant and my mother a qualified teacher, could afford to buy a house with a...

It should be the jury you're having a go at, not the judge.

I suspect you might be wrong there. What is often forgotten is that thin, healthy-living people suffer disproportionately from cancer and other illnesses, and especially all forms of dementia, than the fatties. Take a look round in a nursing homes next time you have the sad experience of...

How small? For example, the Morrison family used to own Morrison's supermarkets - would that be too big a company for one family? And if so, would you have to break up all the other supermarkets as well? What about Guinness? Should the Guinness brand have been hived off into loads of smaller...

The reason 25 years olds can't live like 75 year olds is because they haven't spent a lifetime working for their income. That's the biggest single reason why young people have less capital than old people, and it always has been. As for "jobs for life", that's risible. Do you genuinely...

The problem is that if you ban entrepreneurs from creating large businesses, you are also banning them from employing more people. Obviously with the likes of Elton John and Andy Murray and JK Rowling, hugely rich individuals, you can just tell them to give us all their money or leave the...

The reason Capital Gains Tax isn't charged on main homes is because to do that would be a massive drag on the housing market, by making it unaffordable to move. If you have a house worth £1m and you want to change jobs, or downsize because the children have left, or whatever, then you would pay...

One "hidden" fact from that first graph is that there are twice as many households now as in 1980. Partly population increase, but also the increase in the number of single people, presumably split-up families, and perhaps people leaving home earlier? Either way, the proportion of mortgaged...

When I see the student union bars closing down for lack of business, I'll believe that students are short of money. Can havig the option of going to university but having to pay tuition fees, be considerably worse than not having the university option at all? The idea that older people...

I suppose flexibility can be considered a bad thing too. A system that allows members priority on returned season tickets AND allows season ticket holders to take friends and family if the owner can't go, is clearly unpopular with some. Wait until we're not in the PL any more. (It'll happen...

It would be cheaper and make more sense to issue season tickets as cards rather than transferrable phone tickets, and that would ensure that whoever uses the ticket has to be either the owner, or someone the owner trusts. It would stop random touting. I don't get this determination to ensure...

Yes. Burnley's T&Cs say that you can't pass on a season ticket holder to someone in a more expensive category - for example, you can't give a pensioner ticket to an adult unless you pay for an upgrade - and by extension, this means you can pass it on to another person in the same or lower...

They tried this at Burnley a few years ago, but abandoned it when they realised how many tickets are legitimately shared. For example, two parents who aren't particularly interested but their children are, so the parents only get one adult ticket and take turns. For example, shift workers...

If the NHS is so useless that it pays doctors half what they are worth, and it can't supply the basic needs of yourself and many others, why should we want to protect it?