» I've been wondering for a while about the crews of the ships
stuck in the Strait of
Hormuz.https://www.theguardian
.com/world/2026/ ...

» So farewell then, William Orbit. Your passing got me digging
out One Dove and Madonna's
best album. There were bits
about the late ...

» Feels like the swifts have gone. A couple of weeks early. So
it goes.

» # Cocktail - Cora Middleton50ml Jamaican Rum, 15ml Dry
Vermouth, 15ml Lemon, 10ml Dbl
Syrup, optional 15ml egg white
, 3 Raspberri ...

» The 24th week of the Israel-US-Iran war beginsA couple more
weeks and it will be 6 months.
Does anyone know what's going
on? Is th ...

» Made the mistake of copy-posting a rant. So I've done the
unthinkable and deleted it.I
see it is now doing the rounds
all over. Ju ...

» The tax burden is heading for its highest sustained level
since the 1940s. The service
level is the worst in living
memory. You ar ...

» Social housing sits on the most valuable land in Britain,
allocated by need rather than
proximity to work, 48% of zone
1 social ho ...

» You pay National Insurance for fifty years and they move the
pension age.You pay the adult
social care precept every year
and then ...

» Passport and DVLA backlogs are chronic, so the state sells
you a fast track service to
escape the queue the state
created.The trai ...