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2026-04-11 09:33:40 UTC

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I'm not that convinced about it being SUVs, regular cars, especially electric ones are getting heavier.
But the major factors are low County and District budgets and the increasing rainfall in both Winter and Summer.
The National budget for managing roads is adequate but means almost continuous maintenance.

2026-03-02 15:39:24 UTC

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In her serious and strong cosplay outfit.

2026-03-02 14:40:43 UTC

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For it to work they will have to get to every case by the end of the 3 months.
This does not seem likely.
But it's a signal of attitude not an attempt to manage refugees or irregular immigration.

2026-01-04 13:08:24 UTC

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Always the totality of membership is presented either as an impossibllity to swallow or a fantasy of special interests.
The plan appears to be ever closer renewal without rejoining. Hence the talk about agreement on specific areas of trade, essentially separate unions of customs, regulation and alignment.
Monetary union doesn't seem to be either necessary or favourable to either side.
Freedom of Movement will be sold within the areas of alignment, young people are the first.

2025-12-24 14:51:26 UTC

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I found a video on Discogs and I'll find some source.
In searching I found the Welsh The Klezmonauts, https://klezmonauts.co.uk/ similar but different.
In return if you've not heard them A Hawk and a Hacksaw, Slav, Klezmer, Hungarian with Mariachi.

2025-12-24 14:02:11 UTC

My work in progress for a playlist for Christmas (without ick) https://tidal.com/playlist/d13c6390-5c36-4eb5-ba0d-669910b0c8cf
#Music

2025-12-21 11:06:09 UTC

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National economics and debt are so weird that headlines like UK heading for IMF bailout and IMF say UK is fastest growing economy in Europe are published on the same day.

2025-11-22 13:03:16 UTC

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I wonder when dated becomes classic. Two generations difference?

2025-09-21 09:44:10 UTC

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To a large extent I think it's both. The law is too open for the definition of terrorism to be used in any situation.
The second criteria is "involves serious damage to property" this could be defined as breaking a window or defacing a sign if it was intended to change Govt or public policy.
The Home Office has insufficient controls upon it in terms of the ad hoc political actions which result in the use of the Justice System.

2025-08-30 09:25:17 UTC

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I'm far more concerned at retired political war horses that were either left or left of centre fiddling about, messing with core fundamentals like ECHR and the Refugee Convention and Protocol because it undermines the reality that there are 51 million people displaced globally and we're worried about a few that end up with us.
A lot of that is the unilateral removal of Aid & no-one has a plan.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/116/976/475/127/246/original/3c7cafd2aa523d19.png

2025-08-30 09:00:16 UTC

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I think as much by fear from the constant disinformation as anything.

2025-08-30 08:40:52 UTC

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Core Reform supporters are not lost sheep to be gathered in but those beyond help.

2025-08-30 08:18:09 UTC

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I think the kinds of things that will undermine and disintegrate the Reform Party are:
Violence by avowed supporters
Criminal damage by avowed supporters
Reform councillors caught in fraud.
Reform councillors refusing to treat with local press
Reform councillors failing to meet legal obligations as councillors, or the whole Council
Reform MPs fighting over expenses.
Many of these are already in play.

2025-07-27 12:06:49 UTC

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It's a file system copy so it can be quicker but it's without any transaction management and if the destination is contended then the writes will be affected.
Then again how often do you have the data already in the same table structure as the destination?
It presumes the data has already been staged in the database.

2025-06-28 18:51:57 UTC

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Service above and beyond. Seriously that's a tough plant.

2025-06-10 08:34:20 UTC

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Behind a solid paywall? There's really no point using the Guardian as a resource any more.

2025-05-01 18:06:32 UTC

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Indeed.

2025-05-01 15:42:32 UTC

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You can live in a dark place or not. That doesn't make it sane.

2025-04-30 23:04:25 UTC

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People breaking into your house is not about equality and it's a peculiar preoccupation. Is this a likely event and if they did break in whilst you slept how likely are you to be able to defend your property and selves, whether you have weapons or not?
Perhaps an alarm connected to the police would be of more utility.

2025-04-30 20:45:34 UTC

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A weapon isn't about equality. But if everyone carries a gun perhaps they just halve their population from time to time.
But not everyone has them and they never will so that's an unequal society, so no it's not a mechanism for equality.

2025-04-27 11:50:12 UTC

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The first edition of the Observer in 1791 had it's first editorial stress its relevance to people of all classes,
claiming it would be “conveying safe and grounded information and rendering, even to the very lowest, the most essential services; whilst it breathes, invariably, towards its all, the spirit of
enlightened freedom, decent toleration, and universal benevolence.”

2025-04-17 18:07:44 UTC

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Google Play teased me but Content not available in your country

2025-04-17 17:57:28 UTC

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Terry-Thomas was in it. It must exist.

2025-03-07 08:15:16 UTC

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The modifier 'can' is doing considerable work here and 4 examples isn't exactly a full investigation. It's pretty typical of Which though.

2025-02-24 16:24:01 UTC

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My first thought was; Yep, secretly he was always the annoying one.
And then I thought he is a painstaking chap and the speed of the news cycle is even faster than it was in 72.

2025-02-24 14:26:11 UTC

The BBC ran All the President's Men late last night. The difference, of course, between 72/73 and 2025 is that Nixon, his Germans and ex CIA black ops guys did it all in secret and it took relentless journalists and almost as secret whistle blowers and informants to put it all together; Trump and his Plastic Pal (who's no fun to be with) do it all right out in the open.
It's not just his Plastic Pal of course but the whole crew wouldn't have got on Magruder's team they're so dim.
#USPolitcs

2025-02-12 12:46:07 UTC

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Oh that blog post commits one major sin and misses a fundamental point.
The sin is that it's boring, and boring in every dimension.
The fundamental point it misses is that the Internet is not everything, and that everything written down is not everything. The only thing that it is Everything, is everything.
I would guess that more of Everything is not written down than is. That's all the perceptions all the reactions all the events.

2025-02-06 14:39:26 UTC

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You'd rather it was funded by Russia then? (A typical false choice of course, except when it isn't).
Who do you think financed Voice of America, or Readers Digest?

2025-02-04 22:07:12 UTC

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The Drowned World J. G. Ballard.

2025-01-14 10:14:56 UTC

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I approve this message.

2025-01-08 11:54:22 UTC

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Ha, excellent. Did you fulfill the promise?

2025-01-08 11:31:11 UTC

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If I Had A Hammer was part of the soundtrack of my Primary School years, though I wish I had a memory of the Nuns singing it at the the Convent School.

2025-01-06 22:21:33 UTC

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According to Streeting at lunchtime that private providers have to source the resources needed but they can't reuse NHS staff and that's stipulated in the contracts.
When pushed on whether that means more foreign staff he said that's up to them and they could do that.
The implication is that foreign is wrong, but you can't train staff overnight.
There was also a lot on private providers sharing their training facilities with the NHS.

2025-01-05 12:36:07 UTC

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A reasonable summary on comparing network delivery and why cutting undersea cables is more of an interdiction and that LEO satellites aren't a viable alternative.
https://newspaceeconomy.ca/2023/08/13/the-battle-for-bandwidth-submarine-cable-and-broadband-satellite-data/?amp=1

2024-12-29 14:01:29 UTC

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I think that's right, but junk bonds etc and then we had self assessed income statements and characters out of Dickens convincing those on benefits to just sign here Dearie and your house is safe.
This is really a guess but I believe that the majority of mortgages written in the UK alone over the 3 years before the Banking crash were junk, and knowingly so.
As for asset values, requisitioning all empty buildings by age of emptiness would help. Oh & revising Council tax bands.

2024-12-29 12:41:47 UTC

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That is a demographic trap. Higher multiplier mortgages don't frighten those that believe they have the prospects of higher (joint salaries) going on into the future.
It is a barrier both for the less confident and those that feel stuck below a £30k salary and don't see a way toward higher, even moderate earnings.
In that sense I don't think a cap would make that much difference. Interest rates definitely do.

2024-12-29 11:28:48 UTC

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Economic growth shallowed since 2016, following the chasm of COVID it rebounded to the same level by mid 2022 and it's been virtually flat since then.
The higher interest rate may have contributed a little but they are still historically very low interest rates. There is a significant argument for levelling up to 5% and promoting personal investment again which has been hollowed out over the past 15 years; it may also suppress house prices.

2024-12-28 12:27:00 UTC

For most of the world H1B work visas are a lottery. Those from selected countries (many that used to be considered developing), get a favoured status; those from industrialised or post industrialised countries are considered competitors and US employers have to show specific skill needs.
From the US point of view most H1B 'employees' are insourced workers managed by Agent corporations, like Infosys and are general worker bees.
#H1b #Perspective #Billionaire #Employment #USPolitics

2024-12-24 09:44:03 UTC

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"The Day The Global Economy Ponzi Scheme Ran Out Of Road", you can't copyright titles, even overly wordy ones but I gift this to whomever wants to write it.

2024-12-22 19:27:15 UTC

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You weren't brought up on The Hidden Persuaders then.

2024-12-22 15:23:15 UTC

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It's Sid's fault.
Possibly the most successful campaign since Go To Work On An Egg (written by Fay Weldon).

2024-12-16 08:55:32 UTC

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I think Kretinsky might claim that his existing investments in the UK are within the UK. It's no secret that the cost of running parcels is providing the Universal Service.
If as part of this they can renew the local service of direct post delivery which isn't just about getting letters and spam but a human social network. It should probably be partly financed that way.
(For the almost disappeared milkman that's also true).

2024-12-14 16:11:24 UTC

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The thing about a pinch of this, a dash of that in time series data and all the fudging and mudging, rounding and truncating to find a nice curve what looks like a real number with decimal points and percentage signs is a finger in the air.
Which is more than whatabout GDP, but in 3 months time the long term receipts will come in and it will be revised as 0.4% or something.
Still, the economy remains circling the drain without quite plunging down.

2024-12-14 15:57:15 UTC

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Not new, not necessarily new, but a demand that can't be ignored. Famine on its own doesn't seem to make much difference, the Pandemic suppressed more than it stimulated, multinational war always increases output and Climate Mitigation would require the same kind of intensity.
Of course in the last case suppressing activity works also.
With War it always comes suddenly, with Climate Mitigation it will be delayed and delayed.

2024-12-14 15:50:34 UTC

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If it is I don't see that it can be accurate. The inflation of costs may not be the same as the inflation of revenue, in fact it probably lags.

2024-12-14 11:43:29 UTC

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Using GDP as the measure is as broken as you suggest. Given that we are service rich and manufacturing poor that is only magnified in comparison to manufacturing nations.
Growth only arises by satisfying demand in a way that doesn't immediately exhaust investment, the long term Ponzi that the global economy has been running on since the 1950's is running out.
If it can only run as a Ponzi, then a novel investment source is needed. We have either War or Climate Mitigation.

2024-12-14 11:32:47 UTC

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Growth that's less than inflation is bound to be shrinkage, that's been true since around mid-2016 (I wonder why that is). That's simplistic of course.
I (whoever I think I am) predicted recession after leaving and, across a background of global recession, depression for large parts of the UK.
One factor that jiggled that was the pandemic which inflated one particular part of the global economy and suppressed the rest. Sustainable growth is hard, we continue to self harm.

2024-12-08 11:00:05 UTC

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In 2011/2 in some conversation at a BBC event in a studio I was bemoaning the planned loss of long wave and my boss said to the third person we had some ideas of putting data over LW didn't we?
Yes but we will run out of valves, to which the answer was well we could have them made if we had to.
Around then there was an attempt for the BBC to be the Internet of last resort, but that died too.
To me it was a natural synthesis and still is.

2024-12-08 10:03:19 UTC

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A particularly resonant response to Dr Who that I've had since the first series is the mechanics of ethics that underlies each dilemma and that continues.
Ditto Star Trek.

2024-12-05 09:09:16 UTC

I see there's jubilation over the assassination of an individual here as well as on less temperate platforms.
Politics by assassination is a game all sides can play, it's not how Change happens though.
It's to fulfill a fantasy, if only so and so were not there it would be so much easier.
#USPolitics #Ethics

2024-12-05 08:35:28 UTC

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It holds in both small and large systems and their subsystems.
Any process needs to be able to flex and respond to dampen hysteresis in any input, component or output.

2024-12-04 09:28:58 UTC

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I think the opposite would be true, it would increase inflation for the single reason of paying the buyer the CGT tax.
But movement from low value (though perfectly good) housing to extreme value housing would become even harder.
Tax is a terrible method for controlling prices, it's an internal form of tariffs.
#Tax #UKPolitics #Housing

2024-11-30 10:05:18 UTC

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There's room, I think, for an exhibition of pictures of gallery rooms where everyone is ignoring the focal piece.
I have a particular set from MOMA and the Monet Water Lilies (I should reprocess these) https://www.flickr.com/gp/simon-lucy/59rG2hxggs
But it has to be said that the sculpture looks stronger for being ignored.

2024-11-17 10:43:44 UTC

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This is replaying the Late 60's and the 90's.
The push pull between Europe and the USA.
Many Tories tried to build Airstrip One but until Truss no Tory PM abandoned the balancing act.
Under Obama, the axis was Franco-German and USA, Biden bobs like a cork. Trump feeds wherever he can.
Apart from the myth of the Special Relationship there's the worn out trope of the UK as the door to Europe. The latter is a mirage for Republicans.

2024-11-16 09:07:41 UTC

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Generally soft, unless drunk when the hard g is safer. Though the number of times I'm drunk these days is vanishingly small.
But GIF is always hard as Jif is still really a bathroom cleaner.

2024-11-03 10:46:44 UTC

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Either from external pressure or local famine the migrations from East to West happened for over a thousand years and probably in prehistory before that as well.
They were violent and uncompromising at times and then became a part of the Western population, they stopped because the land stopped or they found sufficient land to thrive.
How do we manage that today with a global population of over 7 billion, in 400CE it was about 200 million?

2024-10-31 09:49:53 UTC

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I think you can only judge intentions at this point and then events dear boy events.

2024-10-31 09:24:18 UTC

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Well that can be true, especially if the ratio of population to resources is favourable, like Norway.
But the argument I hear is not that it lifts all boats but that without growth there isn't the economic resource to have the kind of society and public services we say we want.
And at the same time a vigorous private economy has to be stimulated and enabled. It doesn't sound like she wants to do that with sweeties but with stability. That's optimistic but understandable.

2024-10-31 08:56:41 UTC

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I don't see any evidence of trickle down. I do see evidence of public investment. The increase in minimum wage will provide more liquidity for individuals whilst also harvesting that as EERS NI because the scale changes and that's more important than the rate.
However, small employers who largely employ low paid workers will also have higher allowances.
The stumbling block is that personal allowances don't go up until much later in the cycle.

2024-10-25 08:08:00 UTC

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This is remarkable. The only 'failure' was that the WebP image didn't display on Firefox mobile.
131.0.3 (Build #2016050031), hg-e69783530d6d+
GV: 131.0.3-20241011205646
AS: 131.0
Now do 110 baudot and we can do Telegraph simulation of circa 1870. How 5 bits get into 7 bits is an exercise for the reader.

2024-10-18 14:20:26 UTC

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The must common American pronunciation I've heard for those that aren't familiar with the word try and say "WAHrcester" or something similar, and Worcestershire defeats them utterly.
That's "Wustershuh", naturally :-)

2024-10-18 14:10:52 UTC

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Trust me, I live 9 miles away from Worcester in Worcestershire, no one says wOOster, that would be Bertie Wooster. (though southern English accents would likely use Wuster for that too).
The sound on the site is right, but that is Wuster.
It's like the difference between BOOster and BUster.

2024-10-18 13:11:38 UTC

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Depends on the vowels of the speaker's dialect of English. The general pronunciation would be closer to "Wuster" with the last syllable as a falling inflection or a rising one.

2024-10-16 21:35:20 UTC

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The fixed version is 131.0.2 which is the current version. Check your version before updating.
There are fake update attempts, use the browser to update rather then any site.

2024-10-03 20:59:07 UTC

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it's always worth bearing in mind that personal experience of any social media is difficult to generalise.

2024-10-03 11:51:25 UTC

@npub1dga…vl50
Just received Metamorphosis and after a very quick browse it is exactly how I hoped it would be; vibrant, about change with drama and pathos from found surfaces.
I will spend more time with it.
Congratulations and thanks for the additional print.
#Photography #ArtBooks #FoundArt
https://photog.social/@stevenlawson/113203797786955022

2024-09-27 16:51:58 UTC

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Seeing hypocrisy everywhere whilst congratulating oneself on one's pure virtue.

2024-09-27 16:44:57 UTC

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Or it's the manic virtue signalling that society is now infected with.

2024-09-27 16:24:14 UTC

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Really?

2024-09-27 16:20:11 UTC

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Not particularly defending him, just pointing out the inconsistencies in easy judgements.

2024-09-27 16:05:22 UTC

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Including the protecting children example?

2024-09-27 15:40:35 UTC

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If you assume everyone is corrupt why bother even mentioning it?

2024-09-27 15:39:47 UTC

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You mean absolute virtue, that ends up with the Leader of a Party in an election being vilified for protecting his adolescent children during preparation for exams by accepting the offer of accommodation that could be controlled and security provided?
Vilified because someone invented a value for it.
One comment from a prominent online source was "It was his choice to go into politics".

2024-09-27 12:41:51 UTC

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Gifts and hospitality are tightly controlled now in companies, corporations and public life. Even in politics it's generally better than it was, in plain sight at any rate.
In that sense all of the so called scandals at the moment are trivial and declared. The corruption in this case is in the decayed corpses of regular newspapers.
By all means have the highest standards possible but that has to apply to the jackals as well as the lions.

2024-09-27 08:47:28 UTC

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It was exactly the way that most life ran, along a scale from minor appreciation to outright corruption for most civilised history in every culture.
And people still do favours socially and in work, walking a tight rope as they do.
It didn't change because of any revolution in ethics it changed because of the push against crime and that cascaded.
It is an improvement but it also pushed behaviour underground.

2024-09-25 12:36:17 UTC

I'm not on a full pension because I didn't have quite the full set of NI, partly because of the opting out scam of the 80's and partly because of being Self Employed at times.
But I still get more than the qualifying £218 a week so even if I wasn't married with a still working wife I still wouldn't qualify for Pension Credit.
That says to me that anyone that qualifies should claim regardless of the Winter Fuel Allowance.
Energy for those over 75 should be fully funded, as Public Health.

2024-09-19 08:40:35 UTC

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Probation works both ways. Recruitment is a risk for both.

2024-09-17 09:39:17 UTC

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Except that's what the headline says and not what the column has her saying, which is basically "You'll have to ask him".

2024-09-14 09:39:42 UTC

Smiley face Sunflower with a goatee.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/135/224/946/215/281/original/af2f1e8ae8fc4c29.jpg

2024-09-12 12:06:40 UTC

In your work place, your company or organisation do you recognise yourself as being one of the aristocracy or one of the peasants? If you are one of the aristocrats then you probably don’t but if you are a peasant then you will know it.
https://medium.com/the-new-commonwealth/are-you-an-aristocrat-or-a-peasant-bdc34cb0ab35?sk=55d4b46d2361ff2431a8a34955f7a03b
Edited to add the Friend Unlock
#Ethics #Leadership #Workplace #Work #Fairness

2024-09-03 08:21:22 UTC

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There is already law and regulation on when the veil can be pierced. Most Company failures are just events.
There does, I think, need to be a destructuring of publicly listed corporations so that only corporations with at least one specific Public Good in their Articles and with sufficient independent oversight can be listed.
The offering of shares must also be tightly controlled and investment highly regulated.

2024-08-27 08:39:44 UTC

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If we had had a war for 2-5 years, which is an economic equivalence to leaving the EU and the pandemic with the loss of active workers of all kinds and abilities there would have been investment in education and training.
The analogies to post war Britain are manifest. And that includes immigration to fill those empty roles.

2024-08-24 11:06:48 UTC

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They may well be found in breach of Betting regulations, insider knowledge can be criminal.
https://www.bettingwebsites.org.uk/articles/betting-guide/insider-betting/

2024-08-16 11:07:42 UTC

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If it's finally an answer to populating Fancy Zones then that's a Good Thing, there's been an open issue on that forever.
If it's some other bollocks though instead I'll be unimpressed.
Fancy Zones let you template zones on the desktop, any virtual desktop. I have a template of 9 windows in an array each has a PowerShell window in it. I can automate creating the windows but I have to move them manually.
#PowerShell

2024-08-10 21:46:09 UTC

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I meant to post this earlier, enjoy the film again.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/939/910/229/588/144/original/915597c61c2e4065.mp4

2024-08-10 18:11:09 UTC

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Go in sparkles :-)

2024-08-10 17:51:10 UTC

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In your particular circumstances.

2024-08-10 17:44:26 UTC

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It may be mandatory under some circumstances.

2024-08-09 17:05:38 UTC

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It's a silent joke about size.

2024-08-08 08:20:50 UTC

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It is more accurate to say that the police prepared for flash mob violence, the political views of the mob, if any, weren't relevant for that policing.
This is a significant error made in many parts of the media.
#TyrannyOfCategories

2024-08-07 21:31:49 UTC

Govts should not assume that by their actions that they control public safety. The Govt govern by consent, the Police police by consent.
As the riots were flash mobs knee jerked into violence, I think the tens of thousands that came out to protect their neighborhood and deny that there was a shared hatred was also a spontaneous reaction.
Don't start thinking that Citizen Assemblies scale for Governance.
#UKPolitics #Riots