Recent content by Soutra

Somebody will always recommend a Chromebook. They are ok for most general work but they aren't really future proof. The processors seem a bit slow to me. Better to get a Windows laptop. Choose one with at least 16Gb of Ram to allow it to work well as Windows 11 bloats up in the future. Asus...

Saltmarket is a nice little area. Very gentrified these days. It's very convenient for Glasgow Green. If you walk down to the south end of Saltmarket, the walk along Clyde St beside the river to St Enoch Sq is very nice. Subway to Ibrox from there. If you walk north along Saltmarket it turns...

If you just want somewhere clean and handy and cheap the various universities in Glasgow offer summer rates on stays from one night and up. Glasgow University and Strathclyde University both have places convenient for the middle of the city, or the west end. From either you can get the subway to...

Maybe, but I'm pretty sure that creating a situation where two people living next door to each other in identical circumstances and with identical infirmities could have different eligibility to welfare is neither equitable nor sustainable.

That's not what happened at all. Read the article again.

'A river runs through it' - a book by Norman Maclean is set in Missoula Montana. Robert Redford made it into a film with Tom Skerritt and Brad Pitt. The scenery is lovely.

That's not true at all. In the main football clubs in Scotland are run within their means, or close to it, including St Mirren. English clubs in the main lose money and rely on outside funding to keep them going, including Chesterfield. It's all well and good until something bad happens and...

There have been playing captains before. I can't see any reason somebody shouldn't be playing captain again. There are so many vice captains I have no idea what they all do. Whether Keegan Bradley would be a good captain, playing or otherwise, I reserve judgment.

The terms "English" and "British" are never interchangeable. English culture has changed enormously over the last 30 years as a result of immigration. Many of the things mentioned above were not part of cultural England when I lived there.

I don't know how long to break even or payback with Airborne Colours. I am not party to the details of the contract. But part of that £12.5 million was to build various taxiways and service roads so it will enable Willis to extend their maintenance agreements with Easyjet and others. And again...

The £12.5 million is to develop a new hangar and other business facilities on the airfield. It's not to do with Airport passenger operations.

I understand EBITDA very well.

That's your opinion only. There is a lot of support for the airport generally and especially round Darlington. The link to Schiphol, and the onward connections to the wider world is very important.

The announcement about EBITDA suggests the operation is funding itself. No "bail out" money going in. And it's creating jobs in the new cargo village, Airborne Colours, Fedex and a lot of other businesses that are trading on the airfield.

It's not true. Golf courses are <0.5%, houses and gardens are >5%.