For a while in the 1990s my ISP was the Irish Post Office, because if there was such a thing as e-Mail, the mailmen should run it.

What will be the normal way to refer to Your Party in conversation? It’s seriously annoying to say Your Party in the pub when one of your friends supports them and one doesn’t when talking politics. I am hoping for the Yipees, saying Why-Pee doesn’t quite roll off the tongue.

Awww that sucks. I really like Obsidian:

Did Obsidian add AI?

Do you have any idea why? Did Amazon get a load of employees/institutional knowledge when they purchased MGM?

It’s more the Bristol Blenheim. Still an under appreciated workhorse but it is canonically an obsolete light bomber.

At the point they were planning/building the line, the Belgians were officially Allies. After the Wall Street crash the Belgians changed their foreign policy position to Neutrality. There wasn’t the money to do an extra line (for complicated reasons).

Yes, Bosch drive trains are the gold standard in the space . Gazelle aren’t bad either.

They remain the only government in my lifetime without a theory of how economic growth happens and a determination that it definitely not be through universities, immigration, high skilled services, tax simplification, trade relations etc

Pratchett got no respect then though. He was writing genre fiction, not proper novels. He’d have been tucked into a corner in the bookshop.

And means testing pensions would mean that people who did save would resent paying for other people to get it. Making a benefit means tested is the first step to getting it cut.

Yes I think this is the thing. People think that because the public services got worse there must have been tax cuts for the rich, but no! There were huge tax rises on the top decile and business and tax cuts for average earners alongside the shrinking of important parts of the state.

Every time I see Adrian Newey in the background I hope they can get him on the microphone. They need to talk to him, Pat Fry, James Allison. Let’s see what Rob Marshall has to say about Ferrari.

I’m so with you. I briefly considered doing my own version of XCom because the coverage of Radar was a circle on the map.

The AAA games take more labour to make too. The triple AAA game in 2000 would have been made by a team of 50. In 2025 most triple AAA games have a main team of 200 with many outsourced teams as well.

What’s the story there?

How does the earnings component of the triple lock work? If that was the only uplift mechanism for state pension, would that effectively be the same as saying the state pension shall be some percentage of median U.K. wages?