My local Sainsbury’s has filled every formerly-empty bit of random space with toilet rolls stacked to the ceiling. Predictably, nobody appears to be buying them. My M&S is a clothes + food type, and they have tensabarriered off the clothes section you have to walk through to reach the food section. ...

I’ll put Gaucho on the list now.

This is an interesting thread to re-read. For my part, I had a misplaced confidence Brexit wouldn’t happen, and regret some of the things I thought about those who voted for Brexit. I still wouldn’t have voted for it, but suggesting that Brexit needed to be a good idea to go ahead or that people wer...

Even Virgin's Little Red domestic services managed a year or so of operation. Don’t forget a significant number of people taking those flights (without a connection) were just in it for the free Gold card. I (personally) think the writing is on the wall for short flights where there is a decent tra...

I’m putting all the chain Italian restaurants in the “negative outlook” category. I don’t think the bloodshed of 2019 is nearly over yet, and there’s still about a million of them. Carluccios has started widely discounting now too, which they never used to do.

I just hope they don't kill my much nicer looking "Premium" one off yet (closed to new applicants in 2018). I totally agree that the Tesco Premium C/c is one of the best things about Tesco, and is even better now they reduced the annual fee as well as the spend amount to qualify for the clubcard po...

So they’re reviving the unprofitable part of the business, but not the profitable bit. I don’t see it working out well. TA margins are wafer thin these days, especially for airlines.

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Mon 23 Sep, 2019 14.10

When I think of Thomas Cook, I still think of the red boxed logo.

I always think of the "GMTV" logo personally!

Few PV'ers seem to support the idea of a straight rerun, instead they want 'remain', 'leave A', 'leave B' etc - so they can claim a victory with less than half the vote. I would guess that most Brexit-supporting individuals were also strongly of the view that FPTP is the most appropriate electoral ...

To be honest, I don’t blame anyone who voted “Leave” in 2016 - I nearly did myself. With the information we had then, it might as well have been a coin flip. But I find it astonishing that, in the face of all this evidence, the opinion of those who were strongly in favour of Brexit has become even m...

Fair points on the original deal not having received a fair shake. I don't see how an extension of democracy can be undemocratic. Switzerland has semi-direct democracy with regular referenda specifically to vote time and time again on policy and reflect *current* and *informed* public opinion. Other...