In a study published in Comprehensive Psychiatry, researchers report that about 5% of adults in developed countries β more than 2.5 million Britons β have an extreme form of craving known as buying-shopping disorder. It gets worse at this time of the year !
2026 and we are sill digging up paths β¦ and the rapid rail was too expensive to lay on this overcrowded little island, so stopped half way. Perhaps I should try to become an MP! A bit late at 94 β¦
I do not think we should enter into races with other countries for rapid rail and broadband, taking billions we have not got, unless there is an obvious payback. In the case of broadband we may dig up all the paths... https://t.co/sS26vefWMB
@PeterDClack A lot depends on where you live. Preferably not on a South Sea island, Florida or Manhattan and other popular spots ! Unless you like water sports.
@MatthewStadlen@JohnSimpsonNews Agreed. And Trump is vulnerable. (Certainly would be unwise to visit Europe in the near future). Imagine Vance as president! You think things canβt get worse?
@5sec2midnight@implausibleblog And then their wives and families. It is legal back door immigration. No need to risk an inflatable from France and worth it compared with paying people smugglers the money scraped together from their poor families.
@TheTomBirch @implausibleblog Technical colleges (now termed universities) are not inclined to put on courses which give people a living - only ones which will attract students, especially if they come with big fees. This has resulted in attracting huge numbers of foreign students (and their dependants).
@BBC_HaveYourSay Whilst the apparent injustice of the Post Office case has been exposed, there has been no explanation as to why the accounts were tampered with by Fujitsu and why no-one has been brought to justice within the organisation.
@implausibleblog Water companiesπ²I just had, for the second year, a ten page document in 20 point Arial, posted in a large envelope, with irrelevant details of my account. The cost of sending this to every Anglia Water customer could well have been used to clean up their act or reduce charges.
@UKdemocrat Very poor planning with insufficient costing for building a railway through a densely populated area - just to compete with France and Japan?
The economic advantages are difficult to assess. And to find that it cannot connect to a central London station means it is restricted.