I wonder if Lord Bamford has settled the IRC claim?

Who for? Kemi Badenoch?

Oh for the days of the Test Card and some light music when nothing was happening rather than Keir Starmer disappearing into the Palace and BBC commentators filling the airwaves with vacuous dross.

Spare a thought for Tommy Robinson and Nigel Farage as this goes against their hatred:

Those two have always been bone idle

Ignoring the light blue which is the funding for the work at Buckingham Palace, I wonder how the near 100% increase of funding the Monarchy from 2023/4 to 2026/7 can be justified? At the moment I think the Crown receives a % of the income of the Crown Estate.

So Streeting is not going to stand for the leadership of the Labour Party and has no doubt been doing deals with Burnham in smoked-filled rooms for a place in Cabinet. I hope he is confined to the back benches. If Burnham is crowned as PM without a challenge then Labour has learned nothing/

I hope this doesn't count towards Official Engagements.

Thanks for letting me know. I've but a stock picture of the extension of Manchester Town Hall and perhaps you will understand where I am coming from, the corridor behind the arches is very similar.

Cameron a peer and Foreign Secretary. He was probably one of the worst PM of the post-war period. The University of Leeds rate him 4th from the bottom helped by May being joint last with Eden. (Not these are post-war, hence the low rating of Churchill who was well past his best in 1951)

If we look at these discounts for what they are 'welfare or handout payments, it is disgusting that 2 women who are married to rich men, do no public service receive massive subsidies. One of them lives part of the year abroad. Let's take away the King's power to distribute public property.

I do wonder why supposedly respectable companies like Nuffield Health allow their staff to behave like this, and then failing sorting it out end up in a tribunal. It is worth reading the article on miscalculating holiday pay, taking a month to reject a request for holidays etc

We should not be developing underwater drone technology with the US. With Australia, Canada and our colleagues in Europe we should do this.

Weren't we told by Trump that the US was on the verge of a peace deal with Iran?

Why do I doubt that we will heed the warning and start building new capacity in advance? Shouldn't we have a National Grid for water so that we can channel it around the country to where it is needed?

With his sartorial elegance let's let's remember the boost that Boris Johnson gave to the UK sportswear fashion industry🤣

Were there any taxes that ordinary citizens would have paid when the Duchy of Cornwall passed from the present King to the Prince of Wales? If so, why are they treated differently?

I do think politicians have forgotten what being in Government entails, with a majority the most unpopular decisions are taken in the first 2.5-3 years. Some of the presentation by the Government has been poor but nothing justifies the media coverage, particularly the press who were willing to/

Indeed and isn't it Pakistan that has done wonders in changing its reliance on electricity from carbon fuel base to solar:

There are nearly twice as many dead in Iran as those who lost their lives on 9/11. How many more does Trump and Netanyahu want. All life is sacred whether it is an American, Israeli or Iranian.

The cost of petrol, diesel and the general cost of living takes the mind away from the human cost of the Iranian War:

The line that Thatcher tried to kill. Portillo (the freemarketeer who seems to have made a good living from the state own BBC) claims to have save it - I am sceptical. The scenery is spectacular, it at one of end of train and watch the other end as you go over the viaduct. Shortly after the/

Let all European countries stop buying any defence equipment from the USA. Yesterday he was trying to blackmail Zambia into letting him have its minerals or he would stop AIDS medication. Hasn't he been told that China is becoming dominant in Africa.

I am against antisemitism. Having said that, I would have more respect for the Chief Rabbi if he had called out Israel's genocide in Gaza.

I agree with John Major. We have had the media setting the agenda for changing prime ministers, particularly since 2016 with short stays for May, Johnson, Truss and Sunak. The latter of these two, like Brown and Home never won an election. If a ruling party changes leader/