@rorysutherland I’m so keen to read this piece I thought I would again take up a short sub to the vile Speccie. But they want to post paper copies to me, and I’m not having that. Don’t want my postie getting the wrong idea
And here I am, 30 minutes later, with a working Barclaycard Visa account and the new physical card in the post. Fellow sufferers of the business choices made by @HalifaxBank why not join me?
I just started the joyous process of changing a dozen regular online payments from the @HalifaxBank Mastercard I have had forever to the Visa card the bank has switched me to. But then I thought: I really should get a card from another provider. So: bye-bye Halifax.
@implausibleblog@Cambridge_Uni I am faintly shocked to learn that there is such a thing as a faculty of divinity. What do they teach? What do they research?
@HonestFrank Yes, it was brainless. But the really criminal blunder was the box kick with two minutes to go and a 1-point lead. All they had to do was go through a few phases ...
@WillGreenwood You find yourself a point ahead playing the best team in Europe, with two minutes to play. You decide to give that team a chance through the time-honoured technique of a box kick. You are insane. Discuss