My favourite kebab place and our window-cleaner are now the only regular recipients of cash from me. And occasionally car park machines.
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My favourite kebab place and our window-cleaner are now the only regular recipients of cash from me. And occasionally car park machines.
The reviews I want to leave are almost always for companies who never ask for them
I feel like one of them is or is very similar to the UK national anthem
I am forever amused by thinking of the people who wrote the Privacy Policy and maintain the newsletter for the David Graeber Institute website
Ah, fair enough, maybe I'm just not remembering or I've missed others. I appreciated it anyway, far more than I would have done if it was pure boosterism
Interestingly Mike Dixon, party CEO, sent Lib Dem members a sober and considered 2,500-word piece of political analysis this morning, with lots of graphs, and relatively objective insights (relative to the standard of most party membership emails). Feels quite new to me
Maybe some byelection leaflets were guilty of what Labour is alleging, I don't even know. But the clips of her that most people will be seeing today clearly don't show someone being sectarian or divisive. She's not exactly Ian Paisley, is she.
Further undermined by the fact that for most people exposed to this in any way, what they're most likely to see/hear is clips of a pretty normal-seeming young woman plumber saying reasonable things about how people just want hard work to mean a nice life.
Sure, but I'm thinking about the future. In which of the UK's 650 constituencies would the optimal move be for the Greens to stand down for YP? And if the answer is zero, then shouldn't YP maybe consider not bothering being a party? (until we have proportional representation, anyway)
But the Greens just beat the right without a common platform of unity and without an electoral pact. So isn't the lesson that Your Party should stay out of it and let the Greens win where they can?
Over before it began in Chorlton. Never even got to try it before it was boarded up.
YouGov encouraging us all to play the role of a mean-spirited Disney villain with today's question
But then you'd miss "Panic slipped its hood over Richie's mind", a favourite of mine among King's evocative metaphors
Which was the original piece?
I have a small but measurable amount of love in my heart for websites whose Download Invoice function provides a file whose name contains the company, the invoice date and the amount. And a small but measurable amount of hate for those whose systems spit out a filename of gibberish letters & numbers
Indeed, though I believe Jim credits the work of London Centric reporter, Polly, for uncovering this one
AI scepticism I get, a bit. But why oppose this, if it can be done safely? Less traffic on the roads, cheaper, faster.
Seems like pure fear of change
(Or a very rational distrust of some of the worst companies in the UK, hmm)
(sea monster bio)
You've probably seen my writhing in The Atlantic
Your suggested usage might also be true, but to me it feels archaic or at least not something I've encountered in my 40 years!
You think? I'm British & feel like it's almost always used metaphorically, of businesses, systems, things like that.
For a person, I think it's mostly used these days only to contradict or correct... x suggests y is frail or not as strong as they used to be, z says "nonsense, y is in rude health!"
4kg, one wet food pouch in the evening, half a bowl of biscuits in the morning. I agree the suggested amount seems wild and we've had multiple vets say obesity is a way bigger problem than under feeding
Is Christianity something you are, or something you believe, or something you do
To extend the analogy, we didn't try to reduce childhood injuries in cars by banning children from going in cars, or by banning cars..
We forced the industry to make its products safer for all; with some age-related rules too (car seats etc). And required users to comply with those safety features.
Or Podemos? No, probably not.
They could never do everything in a single term, not with this economy, this political culture and the mountain of inherited mess. But I really believe having just a handful of things from term 1 they could point to and say "look how much better this is" would actually set up term 2. Instead...
Yes. They could have frontloaded highly visible improvements that affect everyone a bit (spending whatever it took to e.g. fix every pothole in Britain + GP waiting times), then looked at things that affect some people A LOT (fixing court backlogs, maternity units, labour market enforcement etc).
Not sure I understand; what's wrong with that one?
Who's that gut-lord marching
"People come here to work incredibly hard and to prop up our NHS and social care services so we of course want far fewer of them to come" is the weird contradiction at the heart of the minister's answer there
