I left the UK in the 1980s when I was a student and couldn't afford to eat out then, except for fish and chips or maybe Chinese takeaway. Now I've retired and would like to revisit my homeland but still wouldn't be able to order even a pub meal!
How does anyone in the UK afford to eat out? Just checked the prices of pub grub in a provincial town (Leeds) and you pay the same in pounds as we do in Aussie dollars: 18 for a burger, 25-30 for a steak. That's 87% higher. Won't be going 'home' at those prices
Here's a bit of AI realism from ChatGPT: "To replace the weekly oil tanker flow through the Strait of Hormuz using trucks from Dubai to Fujairah would require about 1.7β2.1 million tanker-truck trips per week, or 3-4 per second, which is logistically unrealistic."
Queensland says it's tough on hate speech and arrests an 18-year-old student for wearing a shirt that says "from the river, to the sea." Meanwhile the state's One Nation Leader Pauline Hanson, who said there are no "good" Muslims, remains unscathed and even gets a boost in polling.
Never heard of him.
You were wrong about Post Office IT systems and youβre wrong about this. Poor judgement. Unfit to be leader.
Flaming Nora
Never let those Rubio slippers off your feet
After banning Huawei and Chinese EVs, the septics now want to ban medical devices made in China- because the CCP are spying on your BP. texasinsider.org/articles/gov...
Ningxia was supposed to be the poorest province but I found it to be doing OK www.josephrock.net/2025/08/chap...
Wow, a bit of real on-the-ground reporting from China via FT. Poverty alleviation in Guizhou, (I cycled through this are a few months ago) archive.md/5N9zp
Why does he remove the eyes? No idea.
Cynthia in Eastenders.
Whenever I hear βNapoleonβ I think of Powell and Pressburgerβs Colonel Blimp
China's Generation Alpha biotech companies are already bringing innovative drugs into practice. Abbisko (founded 2016) pimicotinib for tenosynovial giant cell tumour - Lancet www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
In 2014 Ross Gittins described the MRFF as an accounting trick (www.smh.com.au/business/med...) to hide deficits rather than fund more medical research. How right he was www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...
Hereβs a better link. I heard about this from the Rockonteurs podcast superdeluxeedition.com/news/new-wha...
This should be interesting: Wham manager Simon Napier Bell has dug out all the unused footage (much of it in Chinese) from their China tour in 1985 and had it edited into a new documentary that will be on Netflix in a few weeks www.facebook.com/share/p/18Jt...
Listening to the Alexei Sayle podcast and he reminded me of this youtu.be/ennKE6EioFw?...
Waiting for the Tarantino panto. Tim Roth as Baron Hardup.
20 years after Anthony Carmichaelβs The Rapping Song featured on Look Around Youβs Music 2000 I have found the real life equivalent youtu.be/_stUY1h_qmM?...
Made in Americaβ is a liability rather than a selling point
Looking back at the March 1981 singles charts to see it was kept out of the top 40 by Tony Capstick and the Carlton Main Frickley Colliery Band ... and The Nolans.
Went for a #packraft paddle at Berowra creek but it was too hot and humid
The UK singles charts in 1981 were full of crap medleys- Gidea Park doing the Beach Boys, Startrax doing The Bee Gees, the Royal Philharmonic doing Hooked on Classics β¦ www.mixcloud.com/terry-obrien...
Reality check: itβs a Saturday morning class in Sydneyβs north shore. I donβt think this will have a significant impact on Australiaβs Chinese language proficiency
TIL the precursor to the Kenny Everett TV Show was a Granada production 'Nice Time' featuring Kenny with Germaine Greer interviewing pervy Manc window cleaners www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ywl0...
Geopolitical pundits proclaiming China is 'playing the long game' by not getting involved in the Middle East. No, they're just not psychopathic idiots
The Muyutian 'Flying Truck' can carry 3 tons for 1000km. The smaller VTOL models can carry nearly half a ton kr-asia.com/muyu-sky-soa...
The girlsβ school in Iran, where 165 people were killed by an apparent US-Israeli attack, was hit with two strikes, with the second missile killing sheltering survivors, two first responders and the parent of a slain child have told Middle East Eye.
