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He's a cross between a conductor and choreographer, fascinating how he doesn't stop

The OP talks a lot of sense, love his enthusiasm. I hope you have lots more reasons to call in again (y)

I think this an age old problem. Some carzy bloke 2000 years ago said "Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. You will know them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thorns, or figs from thistles?" Not sure their are any genuine...

I never said ordinary and I'm not really trying, it just seemed to fit with the housing theme. I'm mostly ambivalent to whatever party is in power. The article did make me smile though as it described Sunak as so rich he didn't need to rent out his Yorkshire pad as if this were a virtuous...

Could always rent Starmer's house or one of the Chancellor's properties (sorry it's on the Mail, also available on New York Times): https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14054193/Keir-Starmer-renting-mortgage-free-family-home-worth-2million-living-Downing-Street.html Not working people by...

We had signs like this in the toilets at Sheffield university in the early 90s after a spate of broken bowls. The signs were only in English. Japanese toilets are in another automated world.

Let's hope:

Down by the riverside,

I thought we had left the 18th century behind when Rees-Mogg was kicked out. I must have missed something (again). :doff-hat-emojicon

I think you have put your finger on one problem, education is seen by many as a commodity or process. The value is for the individual which we hope then extends to wider society. In France, all employees are entitled to paid education, much is vocational but it does include learning other...

I sort of agree with you, but I'm not so sure that there are really that many pointless degrees or that they are offered by the institutions we might be expected to think they are.

Unlike you, I do. But you have no idea of the chaos this causes, hence your typically opinionated but ill informed desire to trivialise things you don't understand.