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Why would they abolish them anyway? It makes no sense. It's just as easy to print a QR code as to send it electronically. It makes no business sense to put obstacles in the way of even 10% of your customers.

It's time they looked at a driving licence in the same way as they look at gun licences. If someone has a gun licence and uses the gun, drunkenly, recklessly, or deliberately, to kill someone, then they will never again have a gun licence. Why should people who are clearly unfit to drive, get...

Yes, but there are people who work in the private sector who get paid even less than the subsistence allowance paid to teachers. It might be hard to believe, but there are even people whose first job pays less than £28k!!!

But why is it acceptable that people who don't work for the government should not only get pay rises below inflation, but should also have to pay more taxes to ensure that government employees live better lives than them?

How much disruption it is causing, is arguable. All I'm saying is that by not telling the head teachers who is coming and who isn't, they are doing their best to make the disruption as serious as they can.

You mean all this fuss about the US Civil War was because the poor slaves were living lives like we are today? I've learned something there. Instead of having a war, why didn't they just move to a different employer, or go to university and get better qualified?

I suppose it depends what their aim is. If the head teachers know who is turning up and who isn't, they can make plans to give the children the best education possible in the circumstances. If the teachers want to cause maximum disruption and damage to the children's prospects (and presumably...

There were specific aspect of Hillsborough that made it far more likely to happen there than anywhere else. The Leppings Lane End had a total capacity, covering all 5 pens (I think, from memory, it was five, but the exact number doesn't matter). The point being that the capacity should have...

I've never heard of a women's league after WW1 - there were at least two big gates at friendlies (Dick, Kerr's v St Helens had a gate of over 50k at Goodison Park on Boxing Day, and another match between the same two teams drew 30k+) but not a league that I ever heard of. Have you any links?

I think Burnley's issue was that the top players (especially Ben Mee) weren't picked for the European games, and Dyche treated it like the League Cup as matches to be played rather than matches to be won. Several sources suggest that's when the Burnley spirit/attitude/togetherness started to...

Everton's achievement last year was to finish ahead of a Burnley side that had had little investment for years. With the squad Everton had, no manager should have taken that as an achievement.

New Brighton used to have a tower taller than Blackpool's but it was neglected during the Great War and pulled down shortly afterwards.

I don't get what the problem is? Are you saying that we should have two laws about maternity pay, one saying you get 14 (rising to 18) weeks at SSP rates and the other saying you get a year at SMP rates? We have not progressed as the EEC/EU has progressed. We have gone far beyond the EU...

Statutory Maternity Pay started in 1987. It (in most cases) superseded Maternity Allowance, which still exists for those who can't get SMP and was paid (at that time) for 18 weeks, having been introduced for 13 weeks in 1948. It's now 39 weeks. But even if you don't believe the contents of...

Maternity allowance started in 1948. Weren't you eligible for that? When did the EEC introduce these new protections? The earliest I can find is Directive 89/391/EEC, dated June 1989 and applying from the beginning of 1993. Was there anything before that?

The EU maternity leave is 14 weeks at SSP rates. Why is it upsetting if the law chooses not to enforce that? Isn't the current situation better?

Nice to be popular. We had all this "we hate Burnley" from clubs far away in the fourth division days (when you were lording it in division 2 and we were no doubt beneath your notice). Rest assured, the feeling isn't mutual. Brighton are nowhere near our "hate" list - those that care probably...

The Supreme Court was created by politicians as recently as 2005 and could be brought down by politicians, just as the judicial supremacy of the House of Lords was. And MHRA, even more so - do you really think that if the MHRA started making decisions to quadruple its budget and to release (as...

Can't be done. In a democracy, nothing can be ultimately apolitical because the elected representatives must be able to change it. If an apolitical body decided that the NHS should be replaced by a system like the USA has, would that be better than letting politicians do it? If an apolitical...

The problem with people visiting A&E when they don't really need to is that few people can diagnose themselves effectively. (And until everyone is a qualified doctor, that will always be a problem with no solution.) If you have an emergency, then you go to A&E straight away. If you have a...