Here’s the Brexit cake you ordered, now you’ve got to eat it. At a lunch with EU ambassadors on Wednesday, the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen is understood to have given a frosty response to the volley of complaints from UK businesses about how difficult it all is, especially the rules […]
Will future generations look at the interior design of the early 21st century in appreciation? Possibly not. We do not appear to have crafted many design classics, unless slab-like corner sofas in mud-grey velvet are Eames chairs in the making. Our feature walls are gaudy; our furniture cheaply made. Scarcely anything seems to be built to […]
How much more is a CEO worth than the rest of the workforce? Luke Hildyard, the director of the High Pay Centre, which campaigns for executive pay restraint, said: “Pay for top CEOs today is about 120 times that of the typical UK worker. Estimates suggest it was around 50 times at the turn of […]
“(on visiting the USSR after Stalin regime installed)All right, I can see the broken eggs. Now where’s this omelette of yours?” ― Panait Istrati https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/dec/08/codpieces-zeppelins-best-brexit
Just saw a program about these two places on C4, the kids would love it. Steam trains and reindeer, up in he Scottish mountains. Looked awesome! Home https://www.strathspeyrailway.co.uk/
Chris Grey notes that the ‘sticking’ points about the neverending saga of the Brexit negotiations is around divergence: It’s also worth noting something about these three sticking points. A key and utterly flawed claim of the Brexiters has been that a trade deal would be easy because the UK was starting from a point of […]
