Actually the money comes from the sovereign grant and the grant jumped from 15% to 25% of Crown Estate profits, in order to pay for Buckingham Palace renovations. This years grant is 80 million pounds a substantial increase on previous years. The arrangement hasn't always been without snarls. The gr...

Yes Monk Estimates are $400 Million Ponds in, Royals keep about 40 to 45 Million so the UK people get abouut 355 Million pounds Not a bad deal Buckingham Palace refurbishment for free council housing to cost £369m + 40 to 45 million to the Windsors for social security payments equals net loss of 9 ...

The Washington Post says today’s US trade figures show that Donald Trump’s trade policies aren’t helping the US economy. They also point out that the trade in goods deficit (ignoring services) has hit a record high. US posted record-breaking $891.2 billion merchandise trade deficit in 2018, despite ...

The public report of the Dunblane shooting is not subject to the hundred year rule (https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/276631/3386.pdf), however... The 1991 report by Detective Sergeant Paul Hughes from the child protection unit at Bannockburn, wrote a report d...

Stunning match at Anfield - Liverpool 4 Manchester City 3.

England beat South Africa by 177 runs in fourth Test for 3-1 series win.

Root picks up the D’Oliveria trophy - the first time England have beaten South Africa at home for 20 years.

And the Manchester weather behaved too!

I'm not surprised that you got knocked back at the first hurdle via a telephone enquiry, perhaps the more direct route of making an appointment and presenting at the Embassy/Consulate might gain a better result. However, it would be better for your friend to try and work out a deal with the company ...

Instead of making Newcastle retake the penalty due to encroachment by a Newcastle player, he awarded an indirect freekick to Burton which was the wrong decision. If the score had remained 0 - 0 they may have had to come back and do it all again from the time of the penalty; just like the England und...

"Believe what you want"... Is similar to Aleister Crowley's "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law". This statement indicates that adherents, who are known as Thelemites, should seek out and follow their own true path in life, known as their True Will. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thelema

One would go mad if one took the bible seriously; but to take the bible seriously one must be already mad

If your applying for a visa to many countries you can enquire if there is a flag or block against you from the Embassy/Consultate before applying for a visa, if you have a copy of the details/picture page of your friend's passport you can take the photocopy to an immigration office and ask if there ...

A Farang friend of mine, acting personally as individual, entered a purchase contract with a Thai company. The deal went through, he paid and received the goods. However that contract had a penalty clause - under certain circumstances, within 5 years after signing a contractual penalty of 100.000 B...

Do you mean that if you buy two pizzas the first one is at full price, the second one at 50% off and third one is free..?

A man is lying in bed in hospital wearing an oxygen mask over his mouth and nose. A young student nurse appears and gives him a partial sponge bath. "Nurse,"' he mumbles from behind the mask, "are my testicles black?" Embarrassed, the young nurse replies, "I don't know, Sir. I'm only here to wash yo...

Whoa... before we go all localeeze on this subject which by the way you have to pay and qualify for as you are not a refugee, there are according to the Pew Research Center in 2015 there were 50 Muslim-majority countries in the planet ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_world), so excluding those...

During the George W. Bush administration, the CIA employed what it called “enhanced interrogation techniques” on detainees around the world. This included waterboarding (simulated drowning), sleep deprivation to the point of hallucination, beatings, sexual humiliation, and threats to hurt a detainee...

The legitimacy of government has been on a slippery slope for some time, with Trump you’ll see that violence and power are actually opposites. When institutions, particularly those of government, start to break down and lose their legitimacy, they lose their power over the everyday conduct of citize...

We see with Trump and his cronies an official political reality being enacted by the modern capitalist businessman. Politics and economics are, in Trump, indivisible. And although it looks wonderful that people are demonstrating, it’s actually rather worrisome, because it’s generating an emergency s...

The only free debate in Washington is about the question of the USA being either an autocracy or a plutocracy and clearly the right man is in the Whitehouse to show us what the USA really is. In terms of Foreign policy this is ruled by the military industrial base, energy by the biggest polluters an...