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What's the betting the Northamptonshire person gets the national job so that everyone can pay £120 for their big stick.

Why do politicians always think that making organisations bigger will save money? They've been doing it for decades, and it didn't work in the days before internet and it works even less now. A small organisation has someone in charge of paperclips who buys them at £4 per thousand. A large...

The "incredibly strong side" he inherited finished 8th the year before he was there and 11th the year after he left, 3rd and 4th in his years. They have a big name but are not the club they were. And Zirkzee and Kouame have scored 21 between them in all competitions for Bologna and Fiorentina...

Colne Town Hall flies it every day of the year (barring Union Jack national days). As they said, they have a flagpole, they might as well use it.

She does take a very one-sided view of thew world. I read about a third of it but gave up when she criticised the royal family "getting in on the act" because Prince George (aged 7) was seen celebrating the win over the Germany in the 2020 Euros.

The financial argument, just like it is re. healthy eating, is false. The Alzheimer's Society reckons that dementia costs the country £34 billion per year. People with dementia get pensions, get nursing home fees, and they still get other illnesses too and they still die, usually of something...

Bear in mind that under new rules just coming in, you will have to register with the government how many chickens you have, what breed, where they live, etc etc etc etc - this apparently will help stop avian flu. (Though who fills in the details for any wild birds living in your garden is not...

By "often", I think you mean "never"?

Did you succeed in making her cry?

If they just crack a little bit, then you can get a hard boiled egg with less white - which suits my Mum. 12 minutes for very large eggs, with an instant transfer to cold water to stop the yolk from blackening. Don't know about eggs, but I was using a chip pan unsupervised by age 10 - not a...

Working at a school, surely you have your "emergency excuse mode" well tuned. Tell them that you split your coffee all over your trousers when the lights changed, but fortunately you had these (hopefully smart) jeans in the boot of the car and thought they would be better than trousers with a...

If you think quick enough, the answer is that you have a swollen toe and you decided matching slippers were better than one slipper and one shoe. (Or as an alternative, get plain black slippers instead of those pink fluffy ones with bunny ears!)

Had you had the recommended shower before getting to the poolside? :unsure:

The Palace were vague but basically honest about her condition from the start. They said she was having a major operation and would be out of action for months, while was both 100% correct and also vague. The difficulty comes after the cancer was diagnosed. Now, I presume it isn't expected...

So the likes of Gabon, Togo, Rwanda, Mozambique, South Sudan, Suriname, Burundi, should all be told to get stuffed, we're disbanding the club? The Commonwealth doesn't exist because the UK wants it, it exists because the 54 member countries want it. We need to get away from the far-from...

And how does that compare with Brighton's away ticket prices?

It's basically competitive net practice. Helps the pitchers build up their stamina and the batters get practice against live pitching under game conditions.

That, I think, is where the anti-racists (with the best intentions) are storing up problems. Treating black people as a different caste from white people is not going to help. I am an accountant, but being an accountant doesn't define me. I am bald, but being bald doesn't define me. I am...

I've never tried using a touchscreen while driving, but are you genuinely saying that you can use it without looking at the screen? Or are you saying that looking at the road provides no safety advantage over looking at a screen? Either seems unlikely. I certainly can't use my tablet...

Just to pick up on one tiny point - even the head of the Civil Service union has said that civil servants (I presume he only means those with desk jobs) could cut their hours by 20% with no effect on efficiency. Argue for underpaid if you like, but not for overworked.