Tim Bassett

Handy for kids forced to read & regugitate stuff they have zero interest in perhaps.

Love reading, at least a book per week, but hated half the stuff meant to read at school (some wasn't right time for me, most had zero interest and subtracted time that could be spent reading what I wanted)

The hardest hit not people living in the EU for long periods already, most resident under A50 but new movers. Legal routes for workers & lower income retirees to legally get residence narrowed in many EU states in response to rising housing costs.

The rich will have no problems as always.

"Could be banned" is not right.

They are banned already, however enforcement of the ban is going to be stepped up. How many people will be hit is mostly guesswork.

However, if you want to spend more than 90/180 days in the place it is probably not best described as a holiday home

Politicians usually nice people to talk to, as are CEOs. Doesn't really tell you very much about their morality though.

If politicians with no obvious talent for business leaving office and being appointed to well renumerated board level jobs one has to wonder why?

Issue arises from legality. Modern corruption mostly legal, getting highly renumerated job with share options after leaving office or a massive advance on a book even your own mum unlikely to buy.

People see politicians, ex civil servants and generals becoming rich and see it as corruption.

Or they are so stiff that they include blokes with collar length hair or women who wear trousers in their definition.

Or maybe people who prefer vinyl, surely analogue is non-binary.

He's taken it to another level, but the corruption in Western democracies has been a festering sore for a long while (the preferred solution of making the immoral legal has just made it worse - see Tony Blair)

Watched it again not long ago. Aged well

Really want to come, checking flights/hotels etc

I don't like Man United either, but putting Sir Alec in the same bracket as Mandelson seems a bit strong.

I had forgotten about these, used to see them in my local library as a kid (never read them)

Thanks

Lives in Spain now (I do also, nowhere near him though) in one of those enclaves occupied by English immigrants who insist on calling themselves expats and make no effort to integrate.

Spends his time slagging off the Spanish too.

In the FT article it is ambiguous, but either way it is clear the two surveys cannot have been conducted using the same methodology.

It would be impossible that all issues are more important as the blue dots show. The totals should be the same if the methodology is the same

"What do you see as the MOST important issue" can only have one answer per respondent. The other survey clearly had a different, probably more open ended, question.

It can't be higher for everything.

That whoever did the red survey asked something different as answers do not add up to 100 (or less)

Michael Hunt, Hugh G Rection among prominent donors likely to feature

This feels like silliness see around Taiwan, Chinese jets regularly reported violating Taiwanese airspace. Most of time violated something rather different, zone that Taiwan defines to include parts of mainland China.

Really hope we're not going there, with nearby hot war could get dangerous fast.

No justice, just us as the old slogan goes

Given that the size of the country and the planes cruising speed without burners they clearly flew around in circles for a while or perhaps the reports have been embellished.

Also despite what you hear, the one year return to gilts (holding every issue weighted by size ) is pretty flat. Yes the curve has steepened massively (a global phenomena) but you've made money on the short end and had decent carry.

Why does the ground have such a shallow slope to the stands, does it spoil the Cauldron-like atmosphere of the sport?

If you squint hard enough

Probably the Government would need a share of the debt well otherwise plenty of opportunities for Private Equity style shenanigans

It didn't really though, there are lots of ways to measure economic heft. GDP is not particularly useful for comparisons across economies and even PPP adjustments still miss a lot. Russia is certainly not China or even the US but in what matters in the case of conflict it is several times Italy

What about religion as entertainment? I live in Andalusia, and religious processions are massively popular even with atheists. I have seen similar things in Japan and other parts of Asia.

Not sure where this leaves those religions which lack this aspect though.

Definitely people still complain about the English, can kind of get - they were not nice

Don't get the US triops thing.since WWIi they have been a joke, however nukes matter.

Russia similar

The time to object to this was decades ago when politicians began becoming very rich after leaving office and exploiting their connections. Sadly it was let slide and this is the end result with most people too cynical to care

Must have incredibly low occupancy (or perhaps a lot is DSS benefit claimants, was when I was younger)

Portugal does about 75m visitor night per yr (domestic plus foreign), don't think Blackpool anywhere near