Disagree as benefits should be needs based, rather than means based. Working parents receiving child care support makes perfect sense for instance. If anything we should be more redistributive, with higher taxes and higher benefits.

Most people don't actually have "dirt". Hardly anyone has any sort of life-destroying secret serious enough that it can be used for blackmail

Once upon a time that may have been true about motorways, but we haven't been building roads for a while either. I remember this thread being interesting on that subject: bsky.app/profile/road...

Nate by Natalie Palamides is on Netflix and is great. Someone's already suggested Repertoire, but saying it again because it's incredible.

This, but for barristers instead of movies

Oh mate I'm British and hate that, in most British accents they don't rhyme either. Annoying I have to adopt some ridiculous RP-privately-educated-south-of-England nonsense to read my kids a book

Oh that looks great too, might have to get that one myself

Wait are we talking UK or US wrestling?

This book is great if he's not read it already www.simongarfield.com/books/the-wr...

I think it's going to take years to find out who's got it, and who was just really well cast for one specific role. Twenty years ago I'd have put money on Rupert Grint having a better career than Daniel Radcliff.

I wonder why she left someone with such a can-do attitude

He riffed on it already with The Master watching Teletubbies on The Sound Of Drums

It gets nowhere near the viewers it used to. An inflation-adjusted "Who Wants To Have £1,990,091.45" wouldn't be economical anymore.

He's currently serving his sentence in Brazil, one year into a nine-year term.

He was on Football Cliches which must have been his own choice as a listener, it's too niche a podcast to have been a proper media suggestion from his team. His episode is now frequently referred to as the definitive example of a crap guest, on the pod itself.

@christinamartin.bsky.social wrote the book on this sort of thing

Seems like it could have been improved by dropping relevant information earlier, rather than moments before the twist that depends on it.