Putney David

It’s always nice to see a theatre review you completely agree with. This year’s Elf The Musical at the Aldwych is pretty much perfect. Highly recommended! 👏

They did (or something very like it). My sister and I, both in our sixties, were laughing like idiots last night. It was a brilliant production, highly recommended 👏

… out of date scotch egg. From a dodgy corner shop ..

Sorry about that. I don’t have an FT subscription but that link (which came from Dan’s original post) took me straight to the (non-paywalled) article.

This one? buff.ly/rTfNmFC

Me too - the forecasts are really useful, and appreciated. Please come back soon!

… and worth reading, as ever! Really interesting snippets, not least about the Bletchley dogs that didn’t bark at the time of the German Ardennes offensive in 1944. Thanks Tony, it’s always a pleasure to see one of your blogs pop up 👏

I’m not in her party but I very strongly support Anna’s response to this. People like Robbie Moore MP and their (much more significant) ‘leaders’ should be held to account.

Think Tory AND Reform: has Ann Widdecombe arrived on social media yet? 😚

1959, the year of my birth. I love the silhouetted man with hat on the left of frame, it seems to capture the spirit of the time

Another useful thread to bookmark, to inform counter arguments with those who still read the gutter press

He says different. He also mentioned very small meals with insufficient meat, and walks of less than half a mile …. 😂

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Without wishing to be too pedantic I’d say their statement is accurate then

By email? I’ve only seen it through a DWP web form.

Great recommendation, thank you 🙏 This is one to bookmark.

Yer man trump outside the White House with three blokes wearing hi-viz vests and workmen’s helmets around him.

Village People have gone right downhill recently..

What I cannot work out is *why* Labour thinks saying "It was right to cut Winter Fuel Allowance last year and it's right to reinstate it this year because circumstances changed so much"

Is better than "We listened to you, we got it wrong, we've fixed it, and we're sorry".

It isn’t even privilege. It’s corruption.

I’ve just ordered your 2019 book, so let me read that and get back to you

I get your point Jonathan, and we’re on the same side, but the data you and I have presented in this thread only counters a narrow aspect of what’s generally alleged by the right wing. I really want to offer broad well-evidenced counter arguments to them, but don’t have the data I’m looking for atm

… and I should have said the graph is in the OBR Fiscal Risks and Sustainability Report from Sep 2024

OBR chart showing average net contribution to the UK economy for immigrants and residents from birth. It shows high and average wage immigrants making a greater net contribution to the economy from the assumed arrival age of 25 years.

I haven’t seen an OBR graph that breaks the data down by origin as well as age, but here’s an (OBR corrected) graph by age and migrant earning category:

I’ll applaud when I hear news of a more significant deal, with the EU. Steel and cars will be beholden to the vagaries of Trump’s USA, which can’t be a good thing beyond the shortest term.

That said, thanks for the reply - nice to see from an MP 👏

Or you could negotiate a better trade relationship with our vastly bigger neighbours, who also have the advantage of not being ruled by a nutter…

Love that 👏

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We’re getting there 👏

Nice mod - I didn’t catch it on first sight 😂

Road sign to the village of Wank, near Garmisch Partenkirchen in Bavaria

Quite right - we should all stop giggling like children over foreign road signs that just happen to match rude words in English …

(David is sixty five and a half)