Re the pensions thing from last night. There will be a lot of people, like me, who have had their pensions converted from defined benefit to defined contribution schemes. You end up with a pot of money. The insurance companies then urge you to put it into a scheme of theirs whereby it sort of gets ...

Mrs TE sent me this link in shock. The Telegraph!! http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/11109845/Why-arent-the-British-middle-classes-staging-a-revolution.html Very, very good. Thanks Mrs TE. You could have read it when I posted it at 4:30 this afternoon ;) (Sorry if I'm sounding arsey but I...

Cute pic of Ed and Justine at the top of AS blog at the G.

How phony would it look if it was CallMe and Sam?

Sorry for the trivia but constitutional matters make my brain hurt.

Hello all. Mind if I join you. BTL on the Guardian seems to have turned into a bash Ed fest. Not sure why a steady and competent campaign by Alastair Darling and a timely, and passionate, last minute intervention by Gordon Brown, all to save David Cameron's ass and win this referendum for the sake ...

ephemerid wrote:the various people here getting annoyed/upset about nationalistic fervour should think about how they post.

I've seen very little antagonism within the Haven, it is very much the exception, and I've appreciated the debate.

It would be very dull here if we were always in perfect agreement.

I have relations living in Scotland, this morning I met up with my neice and her husband in Darlington, they live in Edinburgh. I had a brief conversation with him about the indyref, which led on to another thought. I’ll call him Si, cos that’s his name. Gilsey; You’ll vote no, won’t you. Si: I have...

rebeccariots2 wrote:Hello gilsey, nice to see you here.

I'm always here, appreciating everyone's efforts, but rarely login and comment. Should do better.

@Paul. Yes I know, realised as soon as I turned the laptop off. Had to go to the dentist.

Good morning all, and belated thanks to Paul & refitman for setting up the new haven. Not that I had any problems with the old one, as we don't do mobile tech, no reception at home. Picked up this link from the other place. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/08/opinion/paul-krugman-scots-what-the-he...