Rex Sandbach

I sat next to Michael Stipe on Concorde to New York - we chatted about where to find the best brunch in Greenwich village.

Just enjoying the afterglow of listening to Alan Millburn on BBC Today. Please come back into politics.

The former prince Andrew walked into me as he left a train some time in the late 70s. He didn't say sorry.

There's waste, of course but that's true in any organisation. We need to make sure that we're getting the same bang for tax buck as our international peers and work on improving any parts of government which are clearly less productive.

Spot on

I live in Wiltshire. Because of FPTP I had more/better democratic representation when we had MEPs.

Sorry to be trivial but I was puzzled by the flying shark.

Great thread + great use of non scientific language.

He's so terrified of admitting that he's gay.

He's my kind of guy. Anyone who goes straight in with the STP acronym is clearly a master of the craft. Chapeau, my friend.

He's a fantasist of the highest order. He's desperately finding any way he can go pump his stock.

Coal fired warships, anyone?

Maybe the new super duper battleships will be coal powered?

It would make a lot of sense to provide copies of all media to the people prior to their appearances before the panel.

As a child during the 3-day week and a scheduled power cut, we all followed my mother into the kitchen and watched her fill and switch on the kettle, all by candlelight.

Machine slop, I suspect.

Quelle horreur!

Not so secret now, eh?

Just get on with it. We're getting poorer by the minute because we don't invest in the future. It's lovely to have shiny kitchens but our grandmothers would have told us to tidy our metaphorical bedrooms first.

Why's old froggy leaning even further to the right?

Simples.

I thought it was some super trendy vernacular.

I think this should give us some hope that our systems are holding up in this unprecedentedly hostile environment. We need to remember to vote for the honest and not the selfish.

Concur.

Solving the productivity puzzle in a slowly growing economy starts with making employees more expensive. The focus needs to be on real quality and investment in productive capital. There's no alternative in my (simplistic) view.

It's still dated 31st February 2026.

The document is dated 31st February 2026. Happy to help.

Why's it dated 31st February?

Why's it dated February 2026?