Question: why did they bother?

Surely the very first thing anyone did after starting Windows was to change their desktop background?

there's no real theory selling a solution. They're all stuck hoping productivity growth just magically goes back to pre-2008 levels, without doing anything that different to what's been tried already (not counting Truss). The ones with a (misguided) theory meanwhile are pinning it all on immigrants.

Domestic policy is all based around improving productivity growth to boost public services (or cut spending), and has been since the GFC. But when productivity growth doesn't happen, they all flounder. You can deregulate a bit here, or tackle NIMBYism there, but

Hello but because I am boring and/or bored I was thinking about this, and really isn't this true across the three traditional parties?

I wasn't expecting an Honest Trailer for There Will Be Blood when I logged on this morning, but that's what the Screen Junkies guys have given us 😀

"Monster's Ink" 😂😂😂

So they've been sanctioned, but no warrants for their arrests?

It's only a relatively modern thing no? Go back to the early 19th C and the Luddites were being shot for rebelling against technology that was not making their lives better.

We've gotten used to tech and improved living standards going hand-in-hand for a while, but maybe we've just been lucky.

Clashed with the football innit.

I'll have a listen tomorrow though! 👍

"No, the 3-4-3 is not inherently tragic and the system is not a metaphor for the protagonist's feuding children."

Is anything ever actually just done properly? Even when they're ostensibly doing something good and useful it still gets fucked up.

I'm guessing taxpayers will now have to pay to fix the mess that taxpayers previously paid for. Meanwhile the ones responsible for the mess are nowhere to be seen.

Where does this stat come from? OECD stats seems to have England (I can't see UK) as above average compared to the rest of the OECD on adult literacy?

Good thing there isn't a housing problem in London...

"The 7 London areas most likely to be abandoned due to flooding by 2050
1. Bermondsey and Old Southwark
2. Vauxhall and Camberwell Green
3. Battersea
4. Peckham
5. West Ham and Beckton
6. Limehouse and Poplar
7. Erith and Thamesmead"

Here's a question: is this Belgium side actually better than their 'golden generation' from c.2016?

That was a massive rat on the pitch!!!!

A rat on the pitch??! Wtf?

John Steinbeck was a terrible writer, and having to study Of Mice And Men for GCSE was a colossal waste of my time.

(I have since also read East of Eden and that was arguably an even bigger waste of my time, but did cement my opinion).

Woah.

Oh dear.

Eugh, as if you needed more reason to support Wales, Belgium are playing in the Man City kit 🤮

Yes I did switch on late and miss the goal.

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The Robbery of Epicurus
existentialcomics.com/comic/624

The real crime is that they’ve put this “premium” item behind a paywall.

Just preposterous.

Is it me or does there seem to be a developing the start of a steady drip of media stories now pushing back on Brexit?

I think polling showed public acceptance that it was bad/had failed, but the media narrative was/is still stuck on 'will of the people' and sovereignty.

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