@joenutt_author My frustration is that it’s the ££ cost that will eventually start to change minds about VAT - the emotional impact on those forced to move school, teachers losing their jobs, state pupils now left behind in enlarged classes, and teacher workload increasing seems immaterial.
@llewelyn20 Happy Birthday, Jeff!
I hope he knows that in a corner of social media he has cult celebrity status that wishes him every health and happiness.
If this is indeed the end, and I’m genuinely extremely sorry if that’s the case- it sounds like it is - then I still think this was a hell of a way to go out.
It’s was a heroic way to go and I loved him for it. I know many others did.
English cricket was lucky to have him.
@WFASouthScot@_PaulHamilton@MorayHouse We had the screening of the documentary there too - it was incredibly moving. Even walking to it and along the surrounding streets having seen the map showing where each of the men came from was spine-tingling.
@nickfshort My grandfather once played a round of golf with him. My grandfather was a brusque Yorkshireman who had one leg longer than the other from polio, and Bader was … well, Bader. It was apparently a somewhat tense and terse round!
@nickfshort@I_W_M@LordAshcroft I was there a few weeks ago, and had the slightly odd feeling of seeing something in the display I’d handled - the steering wheel from the zeppelin shot down by William Leefe Robinson.