‘by 2023 most metrics in drug arrests, charges, and crime rates were all either declining or stable at relatively low rates’. This is a weird point to make given that reducing drug arrests etc was broadly the point of the policy.
February 7, 2026 at 1:55 PM
‘by 2023 most metrics in drug arrests, charges, and crime rates were all either declining or stable at relatively low rates’. This is a weird point to make given that reducing drug arrests etc was broadly the point of the policy.
Ah yeah dan jarvis who stood for south yorkshire mayor with a policy of sy joining the west yorkshire mayoralty. Reason: people in Barnsley like Leeds more than Sheffield.
February 6, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Ah yeah dan jarvis who stood for south yorkshire mayor with a policy of sy joining the west yorkshire mayoralty. Reason: people in Barnsley like Leeds more than Sheffield.
Used to know people in late-00s who’d only work 3-4 days a week, so they could qualify for wtc and get an extra day off for doing their ‘art’ or whatever.
February 1, 2026 at 6:33 PM
Used to know people in late-00s who’d only work 3-4 days a week, so they could qualify for wtc and get an extra day off for doing their ‘art’ or whatever.
You’re not helping yourself much here are you? Enjoy your retirement anyway.
February 1, 2026 at 3:20 PM
You’re not helping yourself much here are you? Enjoy your retirement anyway.
Are you saying that being female meant you required some different form of communication about it, or is this just an emotional appeal argument? Ps yes male, was 17 in the 90s when it made the news, remember it well.
February 1, 2026 at 3:13 PM
Are you saying that being female meant you required some different form of communication about it, or is this just an emotional appeal argument? Ps yes male, was 17 in the 90s when it made the news, remember it well.
Before 9k student loans, perma-austerity for working people and the crazy house price rises of the 2010s it felt vaguely like a social justice cause that labour should backing. Now it *feels* like spoilt boomers who should be counting their blessings.
February 1, 2026 at 3:02 PM
Before 9k student loans, perma-austerity for working people and the crazy house price rises of the 2010s it felt vaguely like a social justice cause that labour should backing. Now it *feels* like spoilt boomers who should be counting their blessings.
Talk to most Times / Telegraph readers and they are curiously strident on both these issues. Most people don’t give a shit about at least one of them.
January 31, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Talk to most Times / Telegraph readers and they are curiously strident on both these issues. Most people don’t give a shit about at least one of them.
Local restaurants complain that people don’t realise that the dark kitchens are portraying themselves as not chain restaurants, so take business off them. I’m not sure what could or should be done about this 🤷🏻
January 31, 2026 at 12:10 PM
Local restaurants complain that people don’t realise that the dark kitchens are portraying themselves as not chain restaurants, so take business off them. I’m not sure what could or should be done about this 🤷🏻
The 996 culture in China is downstream of imposed working patterns post-49/Cultural Revolution, and also due to the fact that a lot of people literally live in their workplace. The long, long tail of authoritarianism.
January 30, 2026 at 2:30 PM
The 996 culture in China is downstream of imposed working patterns post-49/Cultural Revolution, and also due to the fact that a lot of people literally live in their workplace. The long, long tail of authoritarianism.
This is the classic Times sotto voce disclaimer: ‘actually the person is nuts’. They’ve got their headline and free speech yarn anyway, so no harm for the writer to quietly assert their journalistic ‘integrity’.
January 27, 2026 at 12:44 PM
This is the classic Times sotto voce disclaimer: ‘actually the person is nuts’. They’ve got their headline and free speech yarn anyway, so no harm for the writer to quietly assert their journalistic ‘integrity’.
But on the other hand, they’ll be more houses to live in 🤷🏻
January 27, 2026 at 9:23 AM
But on the other hand, they’ll be more houses to live in 🤷🏻
80 quid more a week is 320 a month! I understand the kids thinking though as i contrived to work 2-3 days a week during my 20s (supply teaching).
January 25, 2026 at 8:50 AM
80 quid more a week is 320 a month! I understand the kids thinking though as i contrived to work 2-3 days a week during my 20s (supply teaching).
Add in some court whispers dressed up as investigative journalism, and you’ve got your ‘well in the long run its all Europe’s fault anyway’ take.
January 21, 2026 at 8:46 PM
Add in some court whispers dressed up as investigative journalism, and you’ve got your ‘well in the long run its all Europe’s fault anyway’ take.
As usual its trying to find a plausible anti-European, anti-left position for its readership. So you end up with: ‘how naive of these pampered eurocrats to say invading Greenland would be bad! They should have done something else which we can’t articiculate, and the crisis would be averted!’
January 21, 2026 at 8:38 PM
As usual its trying to find a plausible anti-European, anti-left position for its readership. So you end up with: ‘how naive of these pampered eurocrats to say invading Greenland would be bad! They should have done something else which we can’t articiculate, and the crisis would be averted!’
When Trump tried to do solo ‘peace’ talks with Putin one of my weird relatives wrote a substack post: ‘Europe isolated again, tut tut what an embarrassment for them, say what you like about Trump but…’. Aspirational parlour talk for Westminster wannabes.
January 21, 2026 at 9:51 AM
When Trump tried to do solo ‘peace’ talks with Putin one of my weird relatives wrote a substack post: ‘Europe isolated again, tut tut what an embarrassment for them, say what you like about Trump but…’. Aspirational parlour talk for Westminster wannabes.
Its for Find My. More reliable than hoping your kids keep their phone charged.
January 12, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Its for Find My. More reliable than hoping your kids keep their phone charged.
Came for the Python code, stayed for the resistance lib fact checks.
January 5, 2026 at 7:07 PM
Came for the Python code, stayed for the resistance lib fact checks.
Yep definitely (cf Palestine). I think if you’ve spent your whole adult life invested in the idea that America sits at the totem of world capitalism, and Labour plays a pseudo-sympathetic administrative function within that, its very hard to get excited about incremental advances in sick pay etc.
December 31, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Yep definitely (cf Palestine). I think if you’ve spent your whole adult life invested in the idea that America sits at the totem of world capitalism, and Labour plays a pseudo-sympathetic administrative function within that, its very hard to get excited about incremental advances in sick pay etc.
Had a convo with my (marxist) branch secretary in December. They were adamant that labour would scupper the Employment Rights bill at the last minute (they didn’t). If your ultra-left groupuscle of choice is always telling you that the labour party is pure evil, then thats what you end up thinking.
December 31, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Had a convo with my (marxist) branch secretary in December. They were adamant that labour would scupper the Employment Rights bill at the last minute (they didn’t). If your ultra-left groupuscle of choice is always telling you that the labour party is pure evil, then thats what you end up thinking.
And here begins the anti-anti-anti woke backlash.
December 24, 2025 at 6:31 PM
And here begins the anti-anti-anti woke backlash.
The problem is they think Immigration is exactly why they’re on the trolley at 3am. We’ll be all the way down to deporting descendants of huguenots and Walloons before they’ll admit they’re wrong.
December 9, 2025 at 8:56 PM
The problem is they think Immigration is exactly why they’re on the trolley at 3am. We’ll be all the way down to deporting descendants of huguenots and Walloons before they’ll admit they’re wrong.
God its so sad, he wants to send us all back to our shitty hometowns. The telegraph must be lapping all this up.
November 25, 2025 at 12:50 PM
God its so sad, he wants to send us all back to our shitty hometowns. The telegraph must be lapping all this up.
During last years riots in the UK a guy got done for making inflammatory posts and it turned out he was making 1.5k a month doing stop the boats/race realism tweets. He was on benefits too!
November 23, 2025 at 5:33 PM
During last years riots in the UK a guy got done for making inflammatory posts and it turned out he was making 1.5k a month doing stop the boats/race realism tweets. He was on benefits too!
In the UK we tore up our Microsoft-heavy IT curriculum in the 2010s and replaced it with coding classes. Now kids come to university with great Scratch skills but not able to use MS Word, email etc. Plus ça change.
November 23, 2025 at 1:49 PM
In the UK we tore up our Microsoft-heavy IT curriculum in the 2010s and replaced it with coding classes. Now kids come to university with great Scratch skills but not able to use MS Word, email etc. Plus ça change.
My work did this before covid, to create a single enquiry point. The poor people staffing this email/portal/phone line now get hundreds of emails a day which they couldnt possibly answer. Makes us cma compliant though.
November 21, 2025 at 7:48 PM
My work did this before covid, to create a single enquiry point. The poor people staffing this email/portal/phone line now get hundreds of emails a day which they couldnt possibly answer. Makes us cma compliant though.