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I'm interested to see how "tough new spending rules" will deliver economic stability? How would tough spending rules helped us through Covid, or 2007? How would they have delivered economic stability when the oil price rose due to the Russian Invasion? The idea that domestic fiscal policy can...

Are you seriously suggesting that somehow other nations joining freely joining a defensive alliance justifies Russia invading a sovereign state?

Could you provide a source for these assurances to the Russian Federation?

Indeed, there was large global population growth due to the development of Artificial fertilizers.

What would the options be for some additional stock to fill in the gaps, as it feels like these replacement units are as far away as ever.

What exactly is a Sheffield councillor going to do about Gaza?

I will admit tht before covid, I did have a preference for premier inn, as the on-site restaraunt was fairly good, and it had a nice all-you-can-eat breakfast. If the offer is indeed still slimmed down, I wonder if that is the reason for the lower profitability; that they've simply made the...

I'd rather we didn't continue to entertain the infantile fallacy that the countries finances are like a household budget.

I'd say that if anything the problem is the opposite, lots of NHS "magagers" are former doctors, who don't specialise in efficiently running organisations, and whos primary contribution seems to be to resist anything that a non-doctor suggests on principle.

So we need politicians who are obsessed with making soundbites for the media circus, rather than have substance and conviction?

I'm always suprised that nobody has coined the idea that ROSCOS are the PFI of trains.

The standard one is to put a Civil Servant with minimal domain knowlege, and no experience managing IT projects in charge of a Complicated IT project; then wonder why the project goes over budget.

It'd be pretty remarkable if the Torah said anything specific about a religion that started around 1000 years after it was written!

There are already laws against littering though?

All those pledges that Sir Kier made and then has broken?