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See, you do have more material for your Confessions ! It is the detail and experiences like this we need in print, please. 🙂

If you could provide the full bib. details please, for those of us that do have legal access to the journals, it would be appreciated. Congrats and many thanks. Neil.

All this so they can design a new cover... 😀 Lumme.

'Fraid you are wrong. One in my local railway station for a start that I use to 'phone my beloved when I am arriving late but have arrived at home (if you see what I mean). God rot the dratted invention of the mobile phone. Harrumph!

Please accept my apologies if I have posted a link to this thread here already, but I am hoping Dr Paul Shannon's forthcoming (and delayed) tome might be of interest to readers: Hope it will be worth the wait.

Look forward to seeing the results here. Thanks.

I found this which might be of help: If anyone can post any more info. on alternatives, I am sure many would be grateful. Thanks.

To try and ameliorate my sulking, can anyone recommend a model of TTA (or its predecessor?) which also carried bitumen, please? I rather like this cargo (as well as creosote), and wish to have the occasional tanker thus arriving in my goods yard. Or is there no alternative? Thanks.

I was told a couple of years ago, I think at a D.E.M.U. Showcase, by a Bachmann wallah the moulds were ready, but they were just waiting a release slot from China. All a bit depressing. A 'new' wagon model dumped.

At last, I think the roof is complete, bar weathering. But this is needed on the whole building anyway, plus some down-pipes. Now for another project, I hope, and nothing to do with slates. I hope others agree it has that 'Brighton Pavilion' look.

I agree "economic devastation" is an emotive term, and which should be defined, but without having access to detailed economic web-sites to which to link, may I start with 'increasing health and wealth inequalities', caused by Osborne's austerity. I would suggest, from partial memories of articles in Private Eye primarily, this was caused by an under-regulated financial network imploding. The consequences for the majority of the population, coupled with an inept governing elite who under-performed after this global financial crash compared to other equivalent nations, has been pretty 'devastating', when incomes have stagnated at best (mine in the public sector has decreased by 25% in real terms), and things have not improved with Brexit and Covid. Yes, we all have the opium now of colour televisions, buying tat on the internet, etc., compared to the 1930's, but compared to other nations, I think things could be much better for the U.K. population. Sorry I do not have the time (or ability!) to write a cogent definition, but perhaps someone else can supplement this concept with other suggestions and evidence. My point I was trying to make was, more than one certain party can mess up the economy, and it is not just govt. Other agencies conribute to the mess, but the tax-payer usually foots the bill. As to 'where to get the money', I would suggest expanding the fiscal net: again banks, multi-nationals, monopoly public suppliers, and many others, have had their taxes reduced over the years. At least I think this is the case, if I remember Private Eye correctly. 🙂

Well, let us wait and see. The point I was trying to make was not only one party's economic policies can reduce the economy to its knees, as I hope has been demonstrated recently. Thanks.

I appreciate we are all getting a little over-heated in this thread, but you are not serious about the above, are you? Have you lived through the last sixteen years of economic devastation for the majority? I do not think it was the Labour party responsible for the economic policies and their consequences during all that time...

A solution I have rarely seen to the (self-imposed) ideological 'problem' of keeping govt debt below forty per cent. of G.D.P. is by using a 'Statutory Company' to keep the borrowing off the public-sector balance sheets. This company can then borrow on the open market. Or is this too simple?

Sorry to bump this thread so crudely, but is there any news on the date of @Karhedron 's Wild Swan book's publication, please?