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Ok. Not 'grieving'. How about 'deeply regretting'? Or whatever term you prefer for seeing your children's aspirations being given an unnecessary whack. (It seems that "not giving much of a toss' might appeal to some people, but it's a free country.) Meanwhile, on the subject of word-choices...

I am sure my single mum on the breadline in Grimsby would be concerned with money but I am surprised that you would equate this with greed. The mum is of course my hypothesis. Perhaps I could offer an actual relative living near Grimsby, a father grieving the fact that the higher education and...

I would guess that WS would argue that it's the principle what matters, whatever the cost. It is a legitimate position but I am not sure that a single mother living on the breadline in Grimsby would agree with him. The point I was trying to make though was that the principle itself is a bit of...

Isn't it the case that the government donates the relatively small amount raised from this VAT to relevant good causes? Targeting money in this way rather than giving every woman in the country, however rich, a £2 pa tax refund sounds quite sensible, however much puce-faced backbench tories want...

I guess not the president who graduated from Harvard in 1975 with an MBA, the only U.S. president to have earned one.

I believe that Southend were one of the clubs that voted to chuck us out of the League in the late nineties.

The point for me about the City game is that I really hope Arsenal lose it - they won’t exactly be on the beach if they do but they might be in the changing room.

I really like your second sentence. Sums up where we are.

You read me right. Allowing a nominated younger family member to take a seventy-plus relative's seat would not place a direct cost on the club and would be a pleasant gesture to loyal supporters affected by the situation. It was just a thought.

Buggers tried to sting me for £563 eighteen months ago though. They're up against the wall with Vodafone and the city council come the day of reckoning.

At a tangent perhaps but on the subject of coronavirus customer care initiatives the club could usefully allow STHs in the most-at-risk age group nominate any family member to use their tickets without additional charge, say for the rest of the season. Safeguards could be built in and the PR...

I am indeed extremely slow, but note that my criticism was aimed at any Brexiteers who might seriously claim that the tampon VAT issue supports their cause. Not at you.

A £40 lifetime saving on average. Roughly what I pay in fuel duty over two or three weeks. The government was in any case donating the proceeds to a worthy cause. And as has been said, EU members will be able to withdraw it anyway the year after next. Any Brexiteer seizing on this one must be...

On the other hand, some of us prefer to allow people's ignorance to speak for itself.

Couldn't agree more. Although the UK is a long way from perfect, and unlikely to get better in the near future, we always buy English-sourced bacon and eggs with poo on them. Dutch and Danish pork products are specifically avoided. Milk comes from the Co-op: not ideal and cheaper than it should...

This LibDem member agrees. I am not going to resign though. It's always better to try to change things from the inside.

I think we can all agree that the likely demographic of BBC employees means that there are probably more pro-Europeans than Brexiteers in Broadcasting House. Having said that, for the life of me, and even factoring in possible bias on my part, I can see no evidence of the corporation's output...

Plus of course Britain wasn't helped by its original exercise in fantasy exceptionalism in the early 50s when it refused to take part in writing the rules of the EU's predecessor.

My family were farmers for 500 years but now it's in the past sadly. If my mother had been my father then perhaps my life would have been very different. Whereabouts in Britain are your family's three farmers?

Apologies if this has already been raised but I thought Johnson was against the judiciary making decisions on political issues of this kind. I suppose they're only enemies of the people when you don't like the judgement.