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Not when you buy alcohol and someone has to verify your age or a barcode is not printed correctly.

The shareholders have to be kept happy, this is just yet another step to increase profits by shaving off a bit more from the punters. Expect the move to more Self Service Checkouts to continue too for the same reason..

Er, Stalin died from complications from a stroke, there was no mass uprising. ..he died of a condition prevalent in old age .

Looks like either North Korea or a Staycation for Vlad this summer.

Maybe cuts in Employers NI contributions which must then be passed on to employee in increased wages ? Mandatory annual wage reviews ? A " Wage Arbitration Board/Service " ? There must be some way to come up with a way to treat employees .....Maybe a Union ? 😉 Edit: just re read your post and...

I think that Hunt has forgotten a major incentive towards getting people back in to work, how about paying decent wages ?

I really don't see why this has happened now ? Usually it's due to heavy sustained rainfall that they open the overflows...and we are apparently suffering a drought at the moment.. looks like my sea fishing is out of the question for a bit.

As a youngsters I used to feel proud to be British... I sat in Geography looking up at a map coloured 25% pink to show the British Empire that we had colonised and " civilised "....over the years the scales have fallen from my eyes and we now have little to feel proud of. Society is broken...

The banner at the bottom was not too bad at first, now I get a banner thing top AND bottom of my screen and my phone freezes as they load. Fast becoming unusable for me.

Sadly, that's Leeds for you.

Christ, its an effing cricket score. Can't see Borthwick keeping his job.

The Dome Cinema is excellent and good value too. Cheap admission in the afternoon, or, used to be ? Often about a third of the cost of Cineworld or the DoY's.

I heard of what happened, I won't watch. This is yet another war crime.

Bless 'em ! I remember the late Clive James and the segment he used to show from the most recent episode of " Endurance " on Japanese TV.. getting in and out of the UK and Brighton and having a pie and Harvey's must be right up there with the horrors they had to play out on TV then. ...

Myself and Mrs V currently in Paphos, 18-23c and either sunny intervals or full sun...back in the UK on Thursday and dreading it !

Agreed. I think even May would have handled it better than Johnson, there certainly would not have been the Partygate scandal under her leadership. Fair to say that any Prime Minister from any of the three main party's would have handled covid better.

30 On 8 December 2021, Mr Johnson told the House “I have been repeatedly assured since these allegations emerged that there was no party and that no Covid rules were broken”;45 and that “I have been repeatedly assured that the rules were not broken”.46 We will examine the basis of his assertion...

A week later.. 29. On 8 December 2021, Mr Johnson told the House: “The guidance was followed and the rules were followed at all times”.We will consider why Mr Johnson told the House that no rules or guidance had been broken in No. 10 when he knew what the rules and guidance were and was in...

Just read some of the damning interim report from the Privileges Commitee, it's online if you fancy trawling through, gets spicy from section 28. A sample... 28. On 1 December 2021, Mr Johnson told the House: “All guidance was followed completely in No. 10" . We will consider why Mr Johnson...

RIP Laurie. I can vouch that his son Neil has dabbled at least with the Albion as it was he I went with on my first few games as a 15 year old way back in the day in 1975 ish.We lost touch after moving on to college etc etc..my sympathies to all the family and those close..