Vince Green

You cannot work in a major company like the post office in any sort of management capacity and not have realised that something was wrong. The sheer scale of the problem negates anyone using the excuse that they were not aware

My ex wife's cousin was in hospital with covid right at the start of the pandemic She still suffers from tiredness but also from the psychological effects of being on the covid ward seeing so many people dying around her and overhearing the conversations among the staff.

There are more like him than we realise

I knew a man, a very wealthy man, who's proudest boast was that he had never paid a penny tax in his life. When asked why he would say they had never written to him so he saw no reason to write to them. I think part of his 'success ' was because he had never had a job that was PAYE since leaving school so never created a paper trail. He died a couple of years ago from throat cancer. I have wondered since how his executors got on with sorting out his estate.

Leonardo Di Caprio and Al Gore Bruce Willis Michael Jackson

When my late Mum worked as a volunteer at the local Hospice Charity Shop the bulk of their sales were to resellers.

In a country like America where the senior Judges are appointed by Politicians and the politicians are openly financed by backers like oil companies, tobacco companies and foreign interests what do you expect ?

Andrew, Trump, Clinton and the magician David Copperfield are the only names I recognised. Lots of other American politicians are mentioned but their names are not familiar to me

There are however a lot of people selling a lot of stuff on ebay and I have to wonder how many are declaring it Same as all the people doing AirBnB

The junior doctors are putting out a lot of misleading information and refusing to negotiate. They have not budged one inch from their initial demand and have brought nothing new to the table They keep saying that junior doctors are paid £26,000 a year. This is technically true but hardly the full story That is the basic pay of a first year junior doctor (still at that stage a student) but that doesn't take into account overtime, unsocial hours and weekend working allowance. In addition they get study leave and accommodation allowance. This brings the average pay of a first year junior doctor up to £40,300. That sounds a bit better doesn't it?

That's not really the issue unfortunately The question is not "would you challenge it ?" The question is what it the likelihood that your challenge would be successful?

it appears that Gunshop at Cat Hill in Barnet North London has closed I'm told the police suddenly demanded a lot of additional (and expensive) extra security which the owner Joe could not afford.

You have to include the new year's day parade with all the American marching band and their families coming to London London is rammed with tourists for new year and you have to buy tickets for the fire works they are not free. The cost of the fire works will be recouped many times over

Actually our economy has grown. Not as quickly as we would like but we are doing better than the EU as a whole and France and Germany in particular That's not surprising when more than 80% of the population of the EU is financially inert. They pay nothing into the "pot", they produce no goods and create no wealth. In May 2004 Slovenia, Slovakia, Poland, Malta, Lithuania, Latvia, Hungary, Estonia, Czechia, and Cyprus were allowed to join the EU Romania followed in Jan 2007. Nobody can explain why. They were mostly bankrupt ex communist block countries. All massively failed to reach the financial requirements for membership and most had very dodgy governments riddled with nepotism and corruption. since they joined they have drained the EU dry of money and subsidies. That is why we needed to get out

I think we are so much better off out of the EU The EU is sliding slowly off the edge of a financial cliff and its lucky for us that we are not tied to them or we would go too. More and more countries are talking openly about wanting to leave. We really are better off out than having to contribute towards their financial shortfall

Anything involving Rylan

But it's more than just his island. He operated his "fun factories" in London and new York as well. His net spread very widely He was also very "busy" in Palm Beach and had a place just down the road from Trump's Mar a Largo Hmmmm

I drive back and forth between London and Cornwall a lot these days. I more or less always have a scary moment at some stage on each journey. I also always see some absolute plonkers

It convinces me that I need to get a dash cam in the January sale

A lot of people who are driving in this country don't have British Licences. My late mother's carer drove for the six years that we knew her on her Hungarian driving Licence and seemed to get away with it. Apparently because she used to return to Hungary a couple of times a year to visit family it was legal.

I dislike that somehow Cliff Richard should be associated with Christmas and gets invited to appear on various TV talk shows at this time of year I can't stand the man, I know the allegations about him were never proven but there is just something about him that sets my teeth on edge.

I thought I was the only one who found him very annoying

It's credited as Wham but actually its written and produced by George Michael and he played every instrument. He was an immense and generally under rated talent. His stage presence was second only to Freddie Mercury but in a very different style. Watch him do different corner at Palais Garnier in Paris on YouTube. Absolute perfection

The sad truth is that there is a mismatch between wagaes and rent in most areas of the country. Plus a shortage of secure well paid 'proper jobs' that allow prospective tenants to pass the increasingly stringent credit checks

We already know Trump is on the list but he will just brush it aside like he does with everything else Fake news, it's a conspiracy etc