Search results

How would you feel about the security services turning up at a pub that you drank at and telling fellow-customers that they were investigating you?

In my experience, the fact that an individual is not a terrorist is not enough to prevent the security services investigating them. Since the investigation also includes making enquiries of friends, neighbours and associates, it can be very damaging to the reputation of the subject of the...

I rate Pevensey Castle - a place that has been in military use since 290AD, right up until WW2. Well worth a visit.

I've got a balaclava in my home ... AND I know a pig farmer.

If it's like earlier LoD stories, it's still too early to work out what is supposed to have happened, let alone speculate as to who dun it, whatever it turns out to be.

Coincidence? Or what?

We need to be VERY careful at this stage in the season. Can the naming ceremony not wait a few weeks?

Anyone who saw Stewart Lee at the Dome last month will recall his incisive analysis of Brexit voters. "Not all of them are racists. Some of them are just ****s".

Blimey! I'd forgotten about the Jack Russell Terrorist.

There are people living in my house (including me) who have been investigated by the security services ... but we weren't deemed to be terrorists. As far as I know.

We still get regular reports of our favourite football team in "Kent and Sussex"... Charlton Athletic.

I take it that living out here, just east of Lewes, means I can rejoice in the fact that Latest TV is not available on Freeview.

Dieu et mon Droit ... the motto of English kings and queens, ever since it was adopted by King Richard I as his battle cry. This doesn't make us all religious fundamentalists, of course. But I could understand, if it was misinterpreted by enemies of the country for their own purposes. I know...

See my post, immediately above.

I'll respond to your second point. I was (am?) a member of the Local Government Pension Scheme. That was a contributory scheme that required both the employee and the employer to make contributions towards the cost of pensions. As an employee, I had no choice and I paid into the fund every...

My job security revealed its extent when a reorganisation of the service I was responsible for resulted in me being made redundant. This was back in 2002. I don't recall God intervening to tell me I had a right to keep my job. And where did you get the idea that I didn't have to work very hard?

Park and Ride is vastly more convenient and quicker than using The Bridge car park.

Nor me.

My public sector pension was paid for by my monthly contributions and by the fact that my pay level was lower than what I might have earned in the private sector. State pensions are paid for out of general taxation.

What have public sector pensions got to do with the state pension?