'Food, water, heating and electricity are not that expensive'

Should have mentioned I'm in UK. That sentence doesn't apply anymore.

I never understood why some people insist on owning property. Especially more than one. Never really able to afford it myself. The Army (UK) cushioned me for a while and then when I left, there was no way to get a mortgage. Maybe if I'd saved instead of enjoying myself. Too late now though.

Like Russia, North Korea, Iran or China? In that case we need to hold accountable the head of the company promoting these sort of posts. Musk.

Meet my sister in law. Hardly goes anywhere as she can't park it. Doesn't visit my wife anymore as she says out car park is too small. Even though workmen and delivery vans get in and out OK. She had a Peugeot 208 which she could park anywhere, but 'upgraded' to a 3008 to fit in with her posh friends. She's retired. And lives in Hertford UK. Not known for it's wide sweeping vistas. FFS.

Not all heroes wear capes.

You're doing good work there, keep it up 😉

This just underlines the need for reliable alternatives. They've pumped billions into Starliner and now looks like they'll need billions more. Someone needs to answer for this.

I wouldn't mind betting there's an element of truth there. The orange man child would do it out of spite.

We need to wean ourselves from anything made in China - difficult as seemingly everything is made there. They do not have our best interests at heart. Look at the post regarding the steel plant in Serbia.

As people use online banking more, less are going to physical buildings. Plus their hours were also awkward and didn't fit in with people working weekends etc. Why pay all the costs of maintaining a building, and more importantly, the costs and wages of people to staff them when you can have a website?

Where I live in Ware, Hertfordshire we don't have a bank anymore. There used to be ay least four. There's building society, but banking has to be done via the post office. Which is in a shop. The main post office closed some years ago and moved into a shop. That closed and we had nothing for over a year.

It's shite.

Exactly. Further to the 'pre-war' comment, I'd suggest it started when they took Crimea. I think they were warming up with Chechnya and Georgia.

Meanwhile our politicians bicker and squabble about what toilets people should be using.

I wonder why that would be.

FFS America, you don't get it both ways. You should have come down ruthlessly on anyone trading with Russia. But you did it all limp wristed and weakly.

Get a grip, get those weapons to Ukraine because there will be no stopping Putin if Russia wins this. And your orange idiot will back him all the way.