Population decline in fact and not prospect
is bound to depress property prices and therefore Angle Rayner's barmy plan to build 1.5m homes need not be implemented.
11 hours ago1 min read
All's well with the world
given that England World Cup player Ollie Watkins owns a £65,000 handbag.
11 hours ago1 min read
Lyons Tea Shops contribute to science
A member of the Lyons family wanted to have accurate up to date accounts for the 250 tea shops covered and devised a computing system which a department of Cambridge University was paid to develop. The resulting system was called LEO which stands for Lyons Electronic Office. I presume that this would have been immediately after WWII.
2 days ago1 min read
The social benefit of upskirting
Nearly thirty years ago a junior RAF officer crawled up to some lady sitting on a bench at Ascot and using a camera attached to a pole was able to photograph the covered parts of the lady. For this he was found guilty of a crime. But this seems to me to have been a miscarriage of justice in that if the lady in question was wearing nickers no intrusion could have occurred and if she was not our gallant young man would have identified a gross breach of the laws relating to publ
4 days ago1 min read
Champions League
Kick off is at 5.00 p.m. London time at Budapest. Take Paris St Germain to win at 90 minutes. 6/4 against will do.
4 days ago1 min read
Dominic Prince (Chapter 2)
His school report was brief and read: Rarely Seen Written by Simon Cawkwell, May 2026
6 days ago1 min read
Nuance in legmanship
There is no escaping this subject. When BBC Radio2's Vernon Kay and his wife of twenty-three years, Tess Daly, announced that they were splitting I was astonished. Although I base my judgment of Tess's position in legmanship contestants on a photo of her collecting an MBE at Buckingham Palace a few weeks ago I could have reverted to her sweeping pins revealed in Strictly Come Dancing. Anyway, it's done now and more's the pity.
May 271 min read
