Recent content by Peteinblack

I work in a university, and while there is a financial crisis, some of it is self-inflicted, because in many universities, about 50% of student fee income goes on layers of middle-management and Soviet-style bureaucracy (Alumni Officers, Heads of Quality Assurance, Curriculum Content Officers...

Bollox!

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Privatise them - more competition will means lower prices and better quality service for consumers and customers :devilish:

Yet these Tories harangue the rest of us about ending "the something-for-nothing society", and insist that we should all "pay our own way" in life rather than rely on hand-outs from others. As always with the Tories, it's "Don't do as we do, do as we say."

From a Conservative Party/Government which: a) claims that it is strongly opposed to banning things just because some people are offended (Cancel Culture) b) keeps demanding less State interference in social affairs. There really is no limit or end to the Tories' arrogance and hypocrisy.

AKA the drummer with Brit-poppers Blur!

Yes, there is so much bureaucratic nonsense in Higher Education - the 'educrats' have taken-over, and govern by 'strategies because they've never taught or written a scholarly book in their lives. Yet I would advise you to persevere with academia, because the current regime is unsustainable...

VAT is also a 'regressive' tax, because it takes more of a poor person's income - a £100 VAT bill is 'nothing' to Richard Branson, but a lot if you're a pensioner.

Apparently, there are dozens of seats (many in southern England) where Labour and the Lib Dems are unofficially agreeing not to campaign energetically against each other if only one of them has a realistic chance of defeating the Tories. In my constituency of Bath, Labour has no chance of...

Brighton and Hove Alsea?

1-2 to the parasites (aka the Albion wannabes)

2024's Gigs - so far. Fairport Convention Bath 23 February Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark Bristol 19 March Wasted Youth Bristol 10 May (last Friday) Steeleye Span Bath 15 May (tomorrow!) Manic Street Preachers + Suede Cardiff 5 July Lene Lovich Bristol 2 August Nick...

I thought the Conservatives were opposed to banning things, because that's 'cancel culture' and denial of free-speech :shrug: